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Kamila Shamsie
Writing Home Fire, the Women’s Prize-winning novel about family, citizenship and divided loyalties.
Kartography · Burnt Shadows
- Born
- 13 August 1973
- Birthplace
- Karachi, Pakistan
More people
Kamila Shamsie
Kamila Shamsie is a Pakistani-British novelist whose fiction moves between intimate relationships and political history.
Early life
Literary family
Her mother Muneeza Shamsie is a writer and editor.
American studies
Studied creative writing at Hamilton College and the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Career
- 1998
First novel
Published In the City by the Sea.
- 2007
London move
Relocated from Karachi to London.
- 2017
Teaching writing
Joined Manchester’s Centre for New Writing.
Selected work
Kartography
A Karachi-set novel about friendship and inherited divisions.
Burnt Shadows
Follows lives connected across war and migration.
Home Fire
Reworks Antigone through a British-Pakistani family.
Beyond work
Two nationalities
Became a British citizen while retaining Pakistani nationality.
Cricket writing
Joined the Authors XI and contributed to its collective book.
Sources & photo credit
Biography and career ↗Further source ↗Identity and date cross-check ↗Photo: Andrew Lih (User:Fuzheado). CC BY-SA 3.0 · Original image. Cropped and displayed in monochrome.
