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Kamila Shamsie
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Pakistani and British writer and novelist (born 1973)
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Kamila Shamsie is a writer and novelist born in Karachi in 1973. She holds citizenship in Pakistan and the United Kingdom. Her writing appears in English and Urdu. She is a member of the Royal Society of Literature.
Shamsie has received the BBC 100 Women, Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, and Women's Prize for Fiction. She was nominated for the Booker Prize. Her notable works include *Furies*, *Lunatics, lovers & poets*, *Kartography*, *Al Thelal Al Mohtariqa*, and *Best of Friends*. She began her work period in 1998.
She was educated at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Hamilton College. Her mother is Muneeza Shamsie. Shamsie practices Islam. Her name in her native language is کاملہ شمسی.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1973
- Works
- 23
Top works
- Furies
- Lunatics, lovers & poets
- Kartography
- Al Thelal Al Mohtariqa
- Best of Friends
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Kamila
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Karachi
- Mother
- Muneeza Shamsie
- Occupation
- novelist
- Languages spoken
- Urdu
- Religion
- Islam
- Image
- Hayfestival-2016-Kamila-Shamsie.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1973-00-00
- member of
- Royal Society of Literature
- Commons category
- Kamila Shamsie
- start of work period
- 1998-00-00
- writing language
- Urdu
- social media followers
- 30369
- nominated for
- Booker Prize
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- BBC 100 Women Edit-a-thon
- name in native language
- کاملہ شمسی
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