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Kamila Shamsie

Pakistan (b.1973)

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 (2012)
   Home Fire (2017)

Omnibus

Home Fire / When i Hit You / Sing Unburied Sing (2018) (with Meena Kandasamy and Jesmyn Ward)

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)

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)
The Lover's Tale (2018)

Non fiction

Offence (2009)

Awards

	Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction Best Book nominee (2009) : Burnt Shadows
	Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction Best Book nominee (2015) : A God in Every Stone
	Walter Scott Prize Best Historical Novel nominee (2015) : A God in Every Stone
	The Man Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (2017) : Home Fire
	Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction Best Book winner (2018) : Home Fire

Kamila Shamsie recommends

In the Orchard, the Swallows (2012)
Peter Hobbs
"A book of great beauty."

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."

Leila (2017)
Prayaag Akbar
"Intelligent, chilling and deeply moving."

The Windfall (2017)
Diksha Basu
"A complete joy from start to finish."

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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