Kamila Shamsie

About Kamila Shamsie

Notable for her Patras Bokhari Award-winning English-language novels Kartography (2002) and Broken Verses (2005), this Pakistani writer is also recognized for her John Llewellyn Rhys Prize-nominated and Pakistani Prime Minister's Award-winning novel In The City by the Sea (1998).

Kamila Shamsie FRSL is a Pakistani and British writer and novelist best known for her award-winning novel Home Fire.

Occupation	Writer
Nationality	Pakistani, British
Genre	Fiction
Relatives	Muneeza Shamsie (mother)
Born	August 13, 1973, Karachi, Pakistan
Alma mater	Hamilton College, University of Massachusetts Amherst

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Trivia

In addition to writing novels, she penned columns and book reviews for the British newspaper The Guardian.

Kamila Shamsie before fame

She completed her Master of Fine Arts degree at the University of Massachusetts Amherst after receiving her bachelor's degree in creative writing from Hamilton College in New York, USA.

Achievement of Kamila Shamsie

She wrote essays and book reviews for the British newspaper The Guardian in addition to books.

Salary 2020

Not known

Net Worth 2020

Undisclosed

Kamila Shamsie family life

She grew raised in Karachi, Pakistan, with a sister named Saman Shamsie, the daughter of journalist and fiction writer Muneeza Shamsie.

Associations of Kamila Shamsie

She and Alexander McCall Smith, a Scottish novelist, both contributed short stories to the Oxfam charity anthology Ox-Tales in 2009.

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