Kamila Shamsie
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Kamila Shamsie is the author of five novels: In the City by the Sea; Kartography (both shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize); Salt and Saffron; Broken Verses and Burnt Shadows which was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction and has been translated into more than twenty languages. toon meer Three of her novels have received awards from Pakistan's Academy of Letters. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and in 2013 was named a Granta's Best of Young British Novelist. She made the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2015 shortlist with her title A God in Every Stone. She is the author of Home Fires, published in 2017, for which she won the 2018 Women¿s Prize for Fiction. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
Werken van Kamila Shamsie
Conflito Interno 2 exemplaren
The Desert Torso (in OX-TALES Air) 1 exemplaar
The Congregation - short story 1 exemplaar
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- Geboortedatum
- 1973-08-13
- Geslacht
- female
- Nationaliteit
- Pakistan (birth)
UK - Geboorteplaats
- Karachi, Pakistan
- Woonplaatsen
- London, England, UK
Karachi, Pakistan
Massachusetts, USA - Opleiding
- Hamilton College (BA ∙ Creative Writing)
University of Massachusetts, Amherst (MFA)
Karachi Grammar School - Beroepen
- novelist
- Relaties
- Hosain, Attia (great-aunt)
Shamsie, Muneeza (mother) - Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- Granta's Best of Young British Novelists (2013)
- Korte biografie
- Kamila Shamsie was also awarded the City of Dortmund's Nelly Sachs Prize (€15,000) in Sept. 2019, which was withdrawn after the prize committee became aware of the German parliament's May 2019 declaration that the non-violent Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel's apartheit treatment of the Palestinians was anti-semitic, and Shamsie's support for the BDS movement.
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British Author Challenge April 2022: Kamila Shamsie & Clive Barker in 75 Books Challenge for 2022 (november 2022)
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