Kamila Shamsie

About the Author

Kamila Shamsie was born in 1973 in Pakistan, the daughter of journalist and editor Muneeza Shamsie. Shamsie was brought up in Karachi before attending Hamilton College in New York, and then she received an MFA from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Shamsie wrote her first novel, In the City by the Sea, while she was still in college, and it was published when she was 25 years old. Between 2000 and 2014, Shamsie wrote five additional novels. Her novels have won the Patras Bokhari Award, a prestigious literary award in Pakistan. Home Fire, her seventh novel, won the 2018 Women’s Prize for Fiction. Shamsie moved to London in 2007 and is a dual citizen of the UK and Pakistan.

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Home Fire

Twenty-eight-year-old Isma Pasha is detained at Heathrow Airport, where she is held and interrogated for two hours, singled out specifically for her hijab and her Muslim background even though she ... view guide