Biography of Kamila Shamsie
Biography of Kamila Shamsie Kamila Shamsie was conceived in 1973 in Pakistan. She is the little girl of the acclaimed writer Muneeza Shamsie, experienced childhood in Karachi, considered in the US, and now lives in London. Her first novel In the City by the Sea was distributed in 1998, while she was still in school and was shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. In the next year, she was granted the Pakistan Prime Minister's Award for Literature. Shamsie is the creator of seven books. Her epic Burnt Shadows (2009) was converted into in excess of twenty dialects and shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction. Her latest, Home Fire (2017) has been longlisted for the Man Booker prize. Kamila Shamsie is a standout amongst the most wonderful storytellers within recent memory. In clear, convincing writing she weaves stories that regularly cross existence, as in Burnt Shadows, where she follows the entwining destiny of two families through the last days of the second