Kamila Shamsie

Kamila Shamsie

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name = Kamila Shamsie


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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
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Kamila Shamsie (born 1973) is a Pakistani novelist, who writes in the English language. She was brought up in Karachi and attended Karachi Grammar School.

She has a BA in Creative Writing from Hamilton College, and an MFA from the MFA Program for Poets & Writers at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where she was influenced by the Kashmiri poet Agha 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 the United States, the United Kingdom, Pakistan, Italy and Poland. In 2000 she was selected as one of Orange's 21 Writers of the 21st 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 of Attia 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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