- Kamila Shamsie
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birthdate = 1973
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occupation = Writer
nationality = Pakistani
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genre = Novels
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website = http://www.bloomsbury.com/authors/microsite.asp?section=1&id=36
footnotes =Kamila Shamsie (born 1973) is a Pakistani novelist, who writes in the
English language . She was brought up inKarachi and attendedKarachi Grammar School .She has a BA in Creative Writing from
Hamilton College , and an MFA from theMFA Program for Poets & Writers at theUniversity of Massachusetts, Amherst , where she was influenced by theKashmiri poetAgha Shahid Ali . Kamila wrote her first novel, "In The City By The Sea", while she was still at UMass, and it was published in both India and England in 1998. It was soon shortlisted for the 'John Llewelyn Rhys/Mail on Sunday award in the UK', and she received the Prime Minister's Award for Literature in Pakistan in 1999. Her second novel, "Salt and Saffron", followed up on her success, and was published in theUnited States , theUnited Kingdom ,Pakistan ,Italy andPoland . In 2000 she was selected as one of Orange's 21 Writers of the21st Century . Her third novel, "Kartography", received widespread critical acclaim and was shortlisted for the John Llewelyn Rhys award in the UK. Both "Kartography" and her most recent work, "Broken Verses" have won the Patras Bukhari Award from the Academy of Letters in Pakistan.She is the daughter of the famous literary journalist, compiler and editor
Muneeza Shamsie , niece ofAttia Hosain and granddaughter of the writer, Begum Jahanara Habibullah.Books
* "In the City by the Sea" (1998) ISBN 0-14-028181-9
* "Salt and Saffron" (2000) ISBN 1-58234-261-X
* "Kartography" (2002) ISBN 0-15-602973-1
* "Broken Verses" (2005) ISBN 0-15-603053-5
* "Burnt Shadows" (2009)External links
* [http://uk.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUKSP3000202220080130 Kamila Shamsie in Jaipur, India]
* [http://www.bloomsbury.com/authors/microsite.asp?section=1&id=36 Kamila Shamsie at Bloomsbury]
* [http://ibelong.britishcouncil.org/english/contributors/kamilashamsie/ Kamila Shamsie]
* [http://www.chowk.com/show_article.cgi?aid=00002756&channel=leafyglade%20inn Mapping Karachi’s Charms and Contradictions]
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