Muneeza Shamsie
Muneeza Shamsie | |
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Born | Muneeza Habibullah 1944 (age 79–80) |
Occupation | Writer, columnist, biographer |
Spouse | Syed Saleem Shamsie |
Children | 2 (including Kamila Shamsie) |
Muneeza Shamsie (born 1944) is a
Shamsie is a regular contributor to the Dawn newspaper, as well as the Herald and Newsline magazines mostly on literary affairs; and also for the online Literary Encyclopedia.[1][2]
Her memoir essays have appeared in 50 Shades of Feminism edited by Lisa Appignanesi, Rachel Holmes and Susie Orbach (Virago, 2013),[3] Moving Worlds: 13.2 Postcolonial South Asian Cities and The Critical Muslim.,[4] The Journal of Postcolonial and Commonwealth Studies: Special Pakistan Issue .
Life and career
Muneeza Shamsie was born in
Shamsie grew up in a home where books and the written word were a part of family life. Her aunt was the noted feminist and writer
All this while, in England Shamsie had become very aware of the acutely limited and stereotyped images of the sub-continent in English literature, culture and film. On her return to Pakistan, she realized how little she knew or understood about her country and she started to look for answers in the genre she loved best: fiction.
As a freelance journalist, however, she has also written on a wide range of subjects, including archaeology, art, architecture, development, environment and women's issues. She is a founding member of a Karachi hospital, The Kidney Centre and a Life Member of The Association of Children With Emotional and Learning Problems (ACELP), and she did voluntary work teaching music and mime at ACELP's school in the 1970s.[8]
She is on the International Advisory Board of Journal of Postcolonial Writing[11] and has guest-edited two of its Special Issue Volume 47 Issue 2, 2011: Beyond Geography: Literature, Politics and Violence in Pakistan; and Volume 52 Issue 2, 2016: Al-Andalus.
She is on the Advisory Committee of the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature[2] and served as a 2013 jury member. From 2009 to 2011, she served as regional chair (Eurasia) for The Commonwealth Writers Prize [1]
She is editor of three pioneering anthologies of Pakistani English literature, of which the US edition of And the World Changed Contemporary Stories by Pakistani Women received the Gold IPPY award and the Bronze Foreword Award in the United States.[1]
Personal life
In 1968, Muneeza Shamsie married Syed Saleem Shamsie, a company executive, and they have two daughters, the novelist Kamila Shamsie,[9] and the children's writer, Saman Shamsie[12][13]
Books
- Hybrid Tapestries: The Development of Pakistani Literature in English (2017)ISBN 978-0-19-940353-0
Books edited
- A Dragonfly in the Sun: An Anthology of Pakistani Writing in English (1997), ISBN 0-19-577784-0
- Leaving Home: Towards A New Millennium: A Collection of English Prose by Pakistani Writers (2001), ISBN 0-19-579529-6
- And The World Changed: Contemporary Stories by Pakistani Women (2005),ISBN 81-88965-23-5
- And The World Changed: Contemporary Stories by Pakistani Women (2008) (US edition), ISBN 978-1-55861-580-9
See also
External links
References
- ^ a b c d e f g "Muneeza Shamsie profile". The Literary Encyclopedia website. Retrieved 7 November 2021.
- ^ a b c d "Muneeza Shamsie on DSC Prize Advisory Board". 5 July 2014. Archived from the original on 16 February 2016. Retrieved 7 November 2021.
- ISBN 978-1844089451.
- ^ a b c "Discovering the Matrix". Critical Muslim website. 6 January 2015. Retrieved 7 November 2021.
- ^ a b Waqas Khwaja; Ghazala Hameed, eds. (2009). "Special Pakistan Issue". Journal of Postcolonial and Commonwealth Studies. 16 (1).
- ^ "Investing in Pakistan's future". Dawn (newspaper). 8 February 2011. Retrieved 7 November 2021.
- ISBN 9780195798869.
- ^ a b c "Muneeza Shamsie profile". bengal lights books website. Retrieved 7 November 2021.
- ^ a b Kamila Shamsie (May 2009). "A long, loving literary line: Kamila Shamsie on the three generations of women writers in her family". The Guardian (newspaper). Retrieved 7 November 2021.
- ^ Hybrid Tapestries: The Development of Pakistani Literature in English.
- ^ "Journal of Postcolonial Writing".
- ISBN 978-9621301062.
- ISBN 978-9634327707.
- ^ ARTICLE: A book of their own Dawn (newspaper), published 15 March 2009. Retrieved 8 November 2021