Kamila Shamsie

Kamila Shamsie was born and grew up in Karachi, Pakistan. She is the author of eight previous novels including Burnt Shadows, shortlisted for the Orange Prize, A God in Every Stone, shortlisted for the Women’s Bailey’s Prize and the Walter Scott Prize, and Best of Friends, shortlisted for the Indie Book Awards. Her novel Home Fire won the Women’s Prize for Fiction in 2018. It was also longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2017, shortlisted for the Costa Best Novel Award, and won the London Hellenic Prize. In 2023, her story Churail was shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award. Her work has been translated into over thirty languages. She is a Vice President of the Royal Society of Literature and was named a Granta Best of Young British Novelist in 2013. She lives in London and in Doha where she is Writer in Residence at Georgetown University in Qatar.