Kamila Shamsie

1973–

Pakistani-British novelist whose fiction connects private lives with politics, history and conflict. Born in Karachi, she studied creative writing at Hamilton College and the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and published her first novel, In the City by the Sea, in 1998. Later books include Kartography, Burnt Shadows, A God in Every Stone and Best of Friends. Granta named her one of its Best of Young British Novelists in 2013. Home Fire (2017), which reworks Sophocles’ Antigone around a British Muslim family, won the 2018 Women’s Prize for Fiction and was longlisted for the 2017 Man Booker Prize.

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