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Biography

Kamila Shamsie FRSL is the author of eight novels, including Burnt Shadows (shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction) and Home Fire (longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2017, shortlisted for the Costa Best Novel Award 2017, and winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2018). Shamsie was named a Granta Best of Young British Novelist in 2013.

Awards

Longlisted of the The Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2017
Longlisted of the The Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2017
Longlisted of the The Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2017
Longlisted of the The Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2017
Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2018
Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2018
Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2018
Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2018
Kamila Shamsie, author of Best of Friends

In conversation with Kamila Shamsie

“I always want the very intimate stories of my characters to also reflect larger stories and conflicts”

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Books by Kamila Shamsie

Impunity
Kamila Shamsie
$29.69 RRP $32.99
Paperback
Home Fire
Kamila Shamsie
$20.69 RRP $22.99
Paperback +3 other formats
Best of Friends
Kamila Shamsie
$20.69 RRP $22.99
Paperback +4 other formats
Broken Verses
Kamila Shamsie
$20.69 RRP $22.99
Paperback +5 other formats
A God in Every Stone
Kamila Shamsie
$20.69 RRP $22.99
Paperback +4 other formats
Burnt Shadows
Kamila Shamsie
$20.69 RRP $22.99
Paperback +3 other formats
In the City by the Sea
Kamila Shamsie
$16.99
Ebook +4 other formats
Kartography
Kamila Shamsie
$22.49 RRP $24.99
Paperback +4 other formats
Salt and Saffron
Kamila Shamsie
$22.49 RRP $24.99
Paperback +2 other formats
This Is Not a Border
Kamila Shamsie
$22.49 RRP $24.99
Paperback +1 other formats
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