Kamila Shamsie

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Career

In The City by the Sea, Shamsie's first book, was published in 1998, when she was 25 years old. It was shortlisted for the John Llewell Rhys Prize in the United Kingdom, and Shamsie was given the Prime Minister's Award for Literature in Pakistan in 1999. Salt and Saffron, her second book, came in 2000, when she was named as one of Orange's Top 20 Writers of the 21st century. Kartography (2002), her third book, received acclaim and was also shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize in the United Kingdom. "Shamsie's cerebral, playful style sets her apart from most of her subordinate writers," a Publishers Weekly review states. The Academy of Letters in Pakistan has given Kartography and Shamsie's next book, Broken Verses (2005), a cross between Arundhati Roy and Salman Rushdie, a large readership in the United States.

Burnt Shadows, Shamsie's fifth book, was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction and received an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for fiction. For the 2015 Walter Scott Award and the Baileys Women's Prize For Fiction, A God in Every Stone (2014) was shortlisted. Burnt Shadows reveals the consequences of shared histories, hinting at larger tragedies caused by individual loss," Maya Jaggi's essay in The Guardian. The Women's Prize for Fiction, Shamsie's seventh book, Home Fire, was longlisted for the 2017 Booker Award, shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and it was named in 2018 as a "powerful tale of love, family, and state in wartime."

Offence: The Muslim Case, a non-fiction book by Seagull Books (2009). Shamsie wrote "The Desert Torso" in 2009 and donated the short story "The Desert Torso" to Oxfam's Ox-Tales project, which is four collections of UK stories by 38 authors. In the Air collection, her story was included. She spoke at the 2011 Jaipur Literature Festival, where she discussed her writing style. She was a participant in the Bush Theatre's 2011 production Sixty-Six Books, with a piece based on a King James Bible book.

In 2011, Shamsie was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She was one of the top 20 best young British writers in 2013 in Granta's list of the 20 best young British writers.

In 2016, she has attended such international events as the Cleveland Humanities Festival and the NGC Bocas Lit Fest in Trinidad, and she is a patron of the Manchester Literature Festival. She joined the Manchester Centre for New Writing in 2017 as Professor of Creative Writing.

"Unbecoming British: citizenship, emigration, and the transformation of rights into privileges" was she addressed at University College London's 2018 Orwell Lecture, "Unbecoming British: citizenship, migration, and the transformation of rights into privileges."

Shamsie, along Nell Stevens, Fred D'Aguiar, and Johanna Thomas-Corr, was a judge for the Goldsmiths Prize in 2021.

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Awards and recognition

• 1999: Prime Minister's Award for Literature in Pakistan, for In the City by the Sea
• 2002: Patras Bokhari Award from the Academy of Letters in Pakistan, for Patras Bokhari Award from the Academy of Letters in Pakistan
• 2005: Patras Bokhari Award, for Broken Verses
• 2010: Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for fiction, for Burnt Shadows
• 2013: Named on Granta's list of 20 best young British writers
• 2018: Women's Prize for Fiction, for Home Fire
• 2019: Nelly Sachs Prize (rescinded, no new winner nominated), in honour of her literary work; however, the jury withdrew its decision to award the writer citing her support for the pro-Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement. A letter protesting the move was signed by hundreds of fellow writers in support of Shamsie.