Kamila Shamsie
Kamila Shamsie is the author of seven novels and one book of non-fiction. The first, In the City by the Sea was published by Granta Books in 1998 and shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. Burnt Shadows was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction and translated into more than twenty languages. She grew up in Karachi and now lives in London. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, a trustee of English PEN and a member of the Authors Cricket Club.
Kamila Shamsie on Granta.com
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.’