# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kamila-shamsie
# Generated: 2026-08-15T11:58:04.592Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kamila-shamsie"
name: "Kamila Shamsie"
slug: "kamila-shamsie"
description: "Kamila Shamsie is a Pakistani and British writer and novelist who is best known for her award-winning novel Home Fire (2017). Named on Granta magazine's list of 20 best young British writers, Shamsie has been described by The New Indian Express as \"a novelist to reckon with and to look forward to.\" She also writes for publications including The Guardian, New Statesman, Index on Censorship and Prospect, and broadcasts on radio."
tagline: "Pakistani and British writer and novelist (born 1973)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hayfestival-2016-Kamila-Shamsie.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1973-08-13"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           51.88
  momentum:             0.3392484342379958
  historical:           21.13798266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "kamilashamsie"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4643672/"
    handle:    "nm4643672"
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    title: "কামিলা শামসী"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Kamila Shamsie"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump