Kamila Shamsie

Kamila Shamsie

Kamila Shamsie is the author of eight novels, including Best of Friends, Burnt Shadows, Kartography, and Home Fire which won the Women’s Prize for Fiction and was long listed for the Man Booker Prize. Her story Churail was shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award, and four of her novels have received awards from the Pakistan Academy of Letters. A Vice President of the Royal Society of Literature and the recipient of a Tamgha-e-Imtiaz, she grew up in Karachi, and now lives in London and in Doha where she is the inaugural Writer in Residence at Georgetown University in Qatar. Her novels have been translated into over 30 languages.