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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.
Genres: Horror, Literary Fiction
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 (2014)
Home Fire (2017)
Best of Friends (2022)
Salt and Saffron (2000)
Kartography (2002)
Broken Verses (2005)
Burnt Shadows (2009)
A God in Every Stone (2014)
Home Fire (2017)
Best of Friends (2022)
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)
Resist (2019) (with Julia Bell, Bidisha, SJ Bradley, Jude Brown, Lucy Caldwell, Steve Chambers, Martin Edwards, Uschi Gatward, Luan Goldie, Gaia Holmes, Nikita Lalwani, Zoe Lambert, Irfan Master and Eley Wil)
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)
Resist (2019) (with Julia Bell, Bidisha, SJ Bradley, Jude Brown, Lucy Caldwell, Steve Chambers, Martin Edwards, Uschi Gatward, Luan Goldie, Gaia Holmes, Nikita Lalwani, Zoe Lambert, Irfan Master and Eley Wil)
Picture Books
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)
Series contributed to
Non fiction
Awards
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Kamila Shamsie recommends
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."
Apeirogon (2020)
Colum McCann
"A quite extraordinary novel. Colum McCann has found the form and voice to tell the most complex of stories, with an unexpected friendship between two men at its powerfully beating heart."
Hamnet (2020)
Maggie O'Farrell
"The story of Hamnet Shakespeare has been waiting in the shadows for over four hundred years. Maggie O'Farrell brings it dazzlingly, devastatingly, into the light ."
Hades, Argentina (2021)
Daniel Loedel
"A remarkable novel, as imaginatively bold as it is morally complex. It will stay with me for a very long time."
We Are Not in The World (2021)
Conor O'Callaghan
"Haunting, mesmerising, and so deeply intelligent about the interwoven strengths and frailties of the human heart."
China Room (2021)
Sunjeev Sahota
"China Room burns quietly but fiercely from first page to last—a gorgeous, gripping read."
The Fortune Men (2021)
Nadifa Mohamed
"A writer of great humanity and intelligence. Nadifa Mohamed deeply understands how lives are shaped both by the grand sweep of history and the intimate encounters of human beings."
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