Kamila Shamsie is a Pakistani and British writer and novelist who is best known for her award-winning novel Home Fire (2017). " She also writes for publications including The Guardian, New Statesman, Index on Censorship and Prospect, and broadcasts on radio.
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The thing you know in the abstract, but which you have to see, is the vastness of the place and how little relationship one side of it has to another.
On living and travelling throughout the United States in “THE SRB INTERVIEW: Kamila Shamsie” in The Scottish Review of Books (2018 Aug 11)
I don’t have much time for the idea that art is some languorous thing on the sidelines, and that you have to wait 50 years before you address a subject…
On writing about a topic even if it is recent in “Kamila Shamsie: ‘Being a UK citizen makes me feel more able to take part in the
…I am absolutely not someone who thinks that politics is separate from the most intimate details of people’s lives…
On how politics still seeps into peoples’ personal lives in “INTERVIEWS: Kamila Shamsie” in BookPage (2017 Aug 1)
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About this person
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.
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