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    Kamila Shamsie FRSL (Urdu: کاملہ شمسی; born 13 August 1973) is a Pakistani and British writer and novelist who is best known for her award-winning novel...
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  • In 1968, Muneeza Shamsie married Syed Saleem Shamsie, a company executive, and they have two daughters, the novelist Kamila Shamsie, and the children's...
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  • Home Fire (2017) is the seventh novel by Kamila Shamsie. It reimagines Sophocles's play Antigone unfolding among British Muslims. The novel follows the...
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  • Burnt Shadows is a 2009 novel by Kamila Shamsie. It was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction and won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for fiction...
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  • judges for the 2019 award reversed their decision to give the prize to Kamila Shamsie, after the German website Ruhrbarone pointed out her long-standing public...
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  • Suhrawardy, Omar Tarin, Kaleem Omar, Raja Changez Sultan, Muneeza Shamsie, Kamila Shamsie, and others. Fiction from Pakistan began to receive recognition...
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    post-colonial literature. Anita Desai, Vikram Seth, Aamer Hussein and Kamila Shamsie have acknowledged her influence. Attia was born in Lucknow into the...
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    Jackie Kay Blake Morrison Grace Nichols Philip Pullman Elif Shafak Kamila Shamsie Colm Tóibín Claire Tomalin Jenny Uglow Council Colin Chisholm, Hon....
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  • Kentucky to 1980s Nigeria". The Independent. Retrieved 1 June 2017. Kamila Shamsie's 'Home Fire' wins Women's Prize for Fiction[dead link]Washington Post...
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  • England and her life before and after 9/11. Burnt Shadows (2009) by Kamila Shamsie Dead Air (2002) by Iain Banks. An early chapter is set in London on...
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    Ballet in conjunction with Stravinsky’s Oedipus Rex (1927) In 2017 Kamila Shamsie published Home Fire, which transposes some of the moral and political...
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    once I was told I really ought to meet [novelists] Mohsin Hamid or Kamila Shamsie. I’m not naive: liberal elites see race before class and are blind to...
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  • The prize jury included Salim Bachi, Krista Kaer, Patrick McCabe, Kamila Shamsie, Clive Sinclair and Eugene R. Sullivan. Lord Mayor of Dublin Naoise...
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  • Elia (poet, philosopher) Josh Malihabadi (poet, linguist, scholar) Kamila Shamsie (novelist, story writer) Khalique Ibrahim Khalique (journalist, poet...
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  • (chosen decade in parentheses): Robert McCrum (1970s) Lemn Sissay (1980s) Kamila Shamsie (1990s) Simon Mayo (2000s) Hollie McNish (2010s) The shortlisted works...
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  • 000 authors and intellectuals, including Colm Tóibín, Hisham Matar, Kamila Shamsie, William Dalrymple as well as Nobel prize winners Abdulrazak Gurnah...
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  • confusion, and bravado of homosexuality in a hostile environment." Author Kamila Shamsie wrote: "A mesmerizing novel of heartbreak, memory, and the ease of falling...
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    Hiroshima"), Othman Puteh and Abdul Razak Abdul Hamid, 1987 Burnt Shadows, Kamila Shamsie, 2009 Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War, Susan Southard, 2015 Hiroshima...
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  • Jazib Qureshi Javed Ahmad Ghamidi Kaleemullah Lashari Khadija Mastoor Kamila Shamsie Kishwar Naheed Khalil-ur-Rehman_Qamar Khan Roshan khan Mahmood Shaam...
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  • in the wake of her disappearance. In the words of Guardian reviewer Kamila Shamsie, "Danticat shows us a town scarred by violence, corruption, class disparities...
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