Kamila Shamsie was born in 1973 in Pakistan. Her first novel In the City By the Sea, was published in 1998 and shortlisted for the John Llewelyn Rhys / Mail on Sunday Prize. In 1999 she also received the Award for Literature in Pakistan and published her second novel Salt and Saffron to critical acclaim. Kamila lives in London and Karachi.
Novels
In the City by the Sea (1998)
Salt and Saffron (2000)
Kartography (2002)
Broken Verses (2005)
Burnt Shadows (2009)
A God in Every Stone (2012)
Home Fire (2017)
Salt and Saffron (2000)
Kartography (2002)
Broken Verses (2005)
Burnt Shadows (2009)
A God in Every Stone (2012)
Home Fire (2017)
Omnibus
Collections
Ox-Tales:Air (2009) (with Diran Adebayo, Beryl Bainbridge, Helen Fielding, A L Kennedy, Alexander McCall Smith, D B C Pierre, Vikram Seth, Helen Simpson and Louise Welsh)
Road Stories (2012) (with Hanan Al-Shaykh, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Russell Hoban, Deborah Levy, Iain Sinclair, Ali Smith, Eleanor Thom and Clare Wigfall)
Eight Ghosts (2017) (with Kate Clanchy, Stuart Evers, Mark Haddon, Andrew Michael Hurley, Sarah Perry, Max Porter and Jeanette Winterson)
Road Stories (2012) (with Hanan Al-Shaykh, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Russell Hoban, Deborah Levy, Iain Sinclair, Ali Smith, Eleanor Thom and Clare Wigfall)
Eight Ghosts (2017) (with Kate Clanchy, Stuart Evers, Mark Haddon, Andrew Michael Hurley, Sarah Perry, Max Porter and Jeanette Winterson)
Novellas
Exquisite Corpse (2013) (with Naomi Alderman, Stella Duffy, Joe Dunthorne, Stuart Evers, Vanessa Gebbie, Matt Haig, Alex Preston, Marcel Theroux and G Willow Wilson)
Non fiction
Awards
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Kamila Shamsie recommends
The Scatter Here Is Too Great (2013)
Bilal Tanweer
"Bilal Tanweer uses his many gifts as a writer to evoke a Karachi of humour, violence, frustration, love - and breathtaking stories at every turn. A wonderful debut."
Ten Days (2016)
Gillian Slovo
"An extraordinary novel-a page-turner thick with greed, ambition, love and secrets."
Peach (2018)
Emma Glass
"Choose wisely the moment when you pick up Peach, because once you do you'll be unable to put it down until the very last sentence."
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