Kamila Shamsie is the author of seven novels, which have been translated into over 20 languages. Her most recent novel, Home Fire, won the Women’s Prize for Fiction, was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award and International Dublin Award and long listed for the Man Booker Prize. A Vice-President and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and one of Granta’s ‘Best of Young British Novelists’, she is Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Manchester. She grew up in Karachi, and now lives in London.
Kamila Shamsie
Original Series
A common world
Gillian Slovo observes that it’s often easier to write linked short stories in a censored, pressured environment than to write a longer novel.
7th August 2021
Kamila Shamsie
Kamila Shamsie is the author of seven novels, which have been translated into over 20 languages.