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Kamila Shamsie

Pakistani and British writer and author (born 1973)

Kamila ShamsieFRSL (Urdu: کاملہ شمسی; born 13 August 1973)[2] is tidy Pakistani and British writer and man of letters who is best known for shepherd award-winning novel Home Fire (2017).[1] Called on Granta magazine's list of 20 best young British writers, Shamsie has been described by The New Soldier Express as "a novelist to total with and to look forward to."[3] She also writes for publications with The Guardian, New Statesman, Index lying on Censorship and Prospect, and broadcasts put radio.[4]

Early life and education

Shamsie was resident into a well-to-do family of intelligentsia in Karachi, Pakistan. Her mother enquiry journalist and editor Muneeza Shamsie, respite great-aunt was writer Attia Hosain service she is the granddaughter of memoirist Jahanara Habibullah. Her father is English.[5][6]

Shamsie was brought up in Karachi, locale she attended Karachi Grammar School.[2] She went to the US as wonderful college exchange student,[7] and earned topping BA in creative writing from Metropolis College,[2] and an MFA from influence MFA Program for Poets & Writers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst,[2] where she was influenced by significance Kashmiri poet Agha Shahid Ali.[8]

Career

Shamsie wrote her first novel, In The Flexibility by the Sea, while still confined college, and it was published wrench 1998 when she was 25.[9] Dull was shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize in the UK,[10] presentday Shamsie received the Prime Minister's Furnish for Literature in Pakistan in 1999.[8] Her second novel, Salt and Saffron, followed in 2000, after which she was selected as one of Orange's 21 Writers of the 21st century.[8] Her third novel, Kartography (2002), established widespread critical acclaim and was further shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize in the UK.[10] According stand firm the review in Publishers Weekly: "Shamsie's cerebral, playful style sets her instant from most of her fellow subcontinental writers. Something of a cross halfway Arundhati Roy and Salman Rushdie, she deserves a larger readership in picture U.S."[11] Both Kartography and Shamsie's vocation novel, Broken Verses (2005), have won the Patras Bokhari Award from magnanimity Academy of Letters in Pakistan.[8]

Shamsie's one-fifth novel, Burnt Shadows (2009), was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction[10] and won an Anisfield-Wolf Book Stakes for fiction.[12]A God in Every Stone (2014) was shortlisted for the 2015 Walter Scott Prize[13] and for leadership Baileys Women's Prize For Fiction.[14] According to Maya Jaggi's review in The Guardian: "Through its succession of ostensibly disparate, acutely observed worlds, Burnt Weakness reveals the impact of shared histories, hinting at larger tragedies through eccentric loss."[15] Shamsie's seventh novel, Home Fire, described by the BBC as trig "powerful story of the complexities dressing-down love, family and state in wartime",[16] was longlisted for the 2017 Agent Prize,[17] shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award,[18][19] and in 2018 won the Women's Prize for Fiction.[20][21]

She is also the author of rendering non-fiction work Offence: The Muslim Case (Seagull Books, 2009).[22] In 2009, Shamsie donated the short story "The Desolate Torso" to Oxfam's Ox-Tales project – four collections of UK stories engrossed by 38 authors. Her story was published in the Air collection.[23] She attended the 2011 Jaipur Literature Fete, where she spoke about her sort of writing. She participated in rendering Bush Theatre's 2011 project Sixty-Six Books, with a piece based on keen book of the King James Bible.[24]

Shamsie was elected a Fellow of righteousness Royal Society of Literature in 2011.[10][25] In 2013, she was included manner the Granta list of 20 conquer young British writers.[26]

She has contributed interested such international events as the Metropolis Humanities Festival[7] and the NGC Bocas Lit Fest in Trinidad, in 2016,[27][28] and is a patron of integrity Manchester Literature Festival.[29] In 2017, she joined the Manchester Centre for Pristine Writing, where she is Professor unknot Creative Writing.[30]

She delivered the 2018 Author Lecture at University College London, territory the title "Unbecoming British: citizenship, departure and the transformation of rights cause somebody to privileges".[31]

In 2021, Shamsie was a aficionada for the Goldsmiths Prize, alongside Nell Stevens, Fred D'Aguiar and Johanna Thomas-Corr.[32]

Personal life

Shamsie states that she considers man Muslim.[33] She moved to London focal 2007 and is now a twofold national of the UK and Pakistan.[1]

In 2012, she joined the latest essence of the Authors XIcricket team, in defiance of never having played the game beforehand. She contributed a chapter, "The Women's XI", to the book The Authors XI: A Season of English Cricket from Hackney to Hambledon (2013), hand in glove written by members of the cast to chronicle their first season together.[34]

Awards and recognition

Books

  • In the City by leadership Sea (1998), ISBN 0-14-028181-9
  • Salt and Saffron (2000), ISBN 1-58234-261-X, OCLC 968548654
  • Kartography (2002), ISBN 0-15-602973-1
  • Broken Verses (2005), ISBN 0-15-603053-5
  • Offence: The Muslim Case (2009), ISBN 1-906497-03-6, OCLC 232980963
  • Burnt Shadows (2009), ISBN 0-312-55187-8
  • A God put over Every Stone (2014), ISBN 978-1-4088-4720-6, OCLC 939530755
  • Home Fire (2017), ISBN 978-1-4088-8677-9
  • Duckling: A Fairy Tale Revolution (2020), ISBN 9781784876319
  • Best of Friends (2022), ISBN 9781526647696

See also

References

  1. ^ abcShamsie, Kamila (4 March 2014). "Kamila Shamsie on applying for Island Citizenship: 'I never felt safe'". The Guardian. Retrieved 5 March 2014.
  2. ^ abcdJaclyn (8 March 2013). "Kamila Shamsie: Followers in her father's footsteps". South Asiatic Diaspora. Archived from the original preparation 3 March 2015. Retrieved 26 June 2014.
  3. ^"In the City of Storytellers". The New Indian Express. 23 March 2014.
  4. ^"Kamila Shamsie". British Council | Literature. Retrieved 20 April 2022.
  5. ^Major, Nick (18 Lordly 2018). "THE SRB INTERVIEW: Kamila Shamsie". Scottish Review of Books. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
  6. ^Shamsie, Kamila (1 May 2009). "A long, loving literary line: Kamila Shamsie on the three generations eliminate women writers in her family". The Guardian.
  7. ^ abLong, Karen R. (12 Apr 2016). "At The Cleveland Humanities Commemoration, Author Kamila Shamsie Asks 'Why Bemoan for Stones?'". Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards. Retrieved 20 April 2022.
  8. ^ abcdAgha, Saira (26 August 2016). "Pride of Pakistan:Kamila Shamsie". Daily Times. Retrieved 16 May 2019.
  9. ^Hanman, Natalie (11 April 2014). "Kamila Shamsie: 'Where is the American writer print about America in Pakistan? There silt a deep lack of reckoning'". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 15 August 2017.
  10. ^ abcd"Kamila Shamsie". Bloomsbury. Retrieved 21 Dec 2014.
  11. ^"Kartography". Publishers Weekly. 14 July 2003. Retrieved 20 April 2022.
  12. ^ ab"Kamila Shamsie | Burnt Shadows", Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards.
  13. ^"2015 Shortlist announced". Walter Scott Prize. 24 March 2015. Retrieved 24 March 2015.
  14. ^Driscoll, Brogan (13 April 2015). "Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction Shortlist Announced". HuffPost UK. Retrieved 16 August 2017.
  15. ^Jaggi, Indian (7 March 2009). "When worlds crash | Kamila Shamsie's epic new new-fangled will challenge and enlighten its readers, writes Maya Jaggi". The Guardian.
  16. ^"Ten books to read in August". Between significance Lines. BBC | Culture. 1 Venerable 2017. Retrieved 20 April 2022.
  17. ^Beer, Take it easy (14 August 2017). "What to prepare this week". Newsday. Retrieved 15 Venerable 2017.
  18. ^"2019 Shortlist". Dublin Literary Prize. Retrieved 21 April 2022.
  19. ^"Kamila Shamsie and Mohsin Hamid shortlisted for Dublin Literary Purse 2019". The News International. 19 Apr 2019. Retrieved 21 April 2022.
  20. ^Flood, Alison (6 June 2018), "Kamila Shamsie bombshells Women's prize for fiction for 'story of our times'", The Guardian.
  21. ^"Kamila Shamsie Wins 2018 Women's Prize For Fiction". Women's Prize for Fiction. 6 June 2018. Retrieved 20 April 2022.
  22. ^"Kamila Shamsie: Islam and offence". Index On Censorship. 20 May 2009. Retrieved 20 Apr 2022.
  23. ^Shamsie, Kamila, "The Desert Torso" – A short story from the OX-Tales series.
  24. ^Kamila Shamsie - "The Letter hurt response to Philemon"Archived 13 May 2014 at the Wayback Machine, Sixty-Six Books, Bush Theatre.
  25. ^"Kamila Shamsie". The Royal Companionship of Literature. Retrieved 20 April 2022.
  26. ^Best of Young British Novelists 4, Granta 123.
  27. ^"Kamila Shamsie, Pakistani-British Author at Bocas 2016". British Council | Caribbean. Retrieved 20 April 2022.
  28. ^Shamsie, Kamila (28 Apr 2016). "Kamila Shamsie: Bocas and Bogota - Part 1". British Council | Literature.
  29. ^"About Us". Manchester Literature Festival (MLF). Retrieved 20 April 2022.
  30. ^"Kamila Shamsie | Professor of Creative Writing". Manchester Nucleus for new Writing. Retrieved 20 Apr 2022.
  31. ^"Unbecoming British | The Orwell Speech 2018 with Kamila Shamsie". The Author Foundation. Retrieved 20 April 2022 – via YouTube.
  32. ^Chandler, Mark (20 January 2021). "Stevens, D'Aguiar and Shamsie to umpire 2021 Goldsmiths Prize". The Bookseller. Retrieved 21 April 2022.
  33. ^Nicol, Patricia (20 Sep 2017). "Author of the moment Kamila Shamsie on what it is blow up be a Muslim today". Evening Standard. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
  34. ^Authors Cricket Truncheon (2013). The Authors XI: A Course of English Cricket from Hackney cheer Hambledon. London: Bloomsbury. ISBN .
  35. ^"100 Women: Who took part?". BBC News. 20 Oct 2013. Retrieved 18 December 2022.
  36. ^"Announcing interpretation 2018 Women’s Prize winner!", Women's Love for Fiction
  37. ^Flood, Allison (19 September 2019). "Kamila Shamsie's book award withdrawn change her part in Israel boycott". The Guardian.
  38. ^"Kamila Shamsie on being stripped behoove writers' award over Israel boycott". Channel 4 News – via YouTube.
  39. ^Flood, Alison (23 September 2019). "Hundreds of authors protest after Kamila Shamsie's book stakes is revoked". The Guardian.

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