Kamila Shamsie
Kamila Shamsie was born in Karachi, Pakistan, in 1973. She has received degrees from Hamilton College, Clinton, New York and the University of Massachusetts. This is her first novel.
Publications
Salt And Saffron
Kamila Shamsie
For Aliya, stories of her family’s past are just amusing anecdotes. Only one aspect of her inheritance interests her – the story that her family has erased from its history, that of Mariam, whose appearance coincided with Aliya’s birth and whose fate was sealed when she decided to follow her heart.
Kamila Shamsie on Granta.com
In Conversation | The Online Edition
In Conversation
Kamila Shamsie & Sunjeev Sahota
A conversation between Kamila Shamsie and Sunjeev Sahota.
In Conversation | The Online Edition
Kamila Shamsie In Conversation
Kamila Shamsie & Eleanor Chandler
‘There’s a certain adrenaline rush that comes from not knowing.’ Kamila Shamsie on writing the unsaid, the challenges of adapting Antigone and the role of the novel in politics.
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Letter to Razan Zaitouneh
Kamila Shamsie
PEN International’s Day of the Imprisoned Writer – we stand in solidarity with writers who have suffered persecution exercising their freedom of expression.
In Conversation | The Online Edition
Kamila Shamsie | Podcast
Kamila Shamsie & John Freeman
Granta Best of Young British novelist Kamila Shamsie talks to John Freeman about love, war and citizenship.
Essays & Memoir | Issue 123
How to Write About Pakistan
Various Contributors
‘Fundamentalist mangoes must have more texture; secular mangoes should have artificial flavouring.’
Essays & Memoir | Issue 112
Pop Idols
Kamila Shamsie
‘In our grandmother’s generation, when people became more religious, they turned devout. Now they turn fundamentalist.’
