Shamsie wrote her first novel, In The City by the Sea, while still at UMass, and it was published in 1998. It was shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize in the UK, and Shamsie received the Prime Minister's Award for Literature in Pakistan in 1999. Her second novel, Salt and Saffron, followed in 2000, after which she was selected as one of Orange's 21 Writers of the 21st century. Her third novel, Kartography, received widespread critical acclaim and was shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys award in the UK. Both Kartography and her next novel, Broken Verses, have won the Patras Bokhari Award from the Academy of Letters in Pakistan. Her fifth novel Burnt Shadows was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction.
Kamila Shamsie: Home Fire | Adapting Antigone and Googling While Muslim
We sat down with Kamila Shamsie — author of Burnt Shadows and A God in Every Stone — to talk about her latest novel, Home Fire.
Spanning London, Massachusetts, Karachi and Raqqa, the Man Booker-longlisted Home Fire follows the lives of five main characters who each identify in some way as British Muslim: Isma, Aneeka, and their brother, Parvaiz, living under the shadow of their father's jihadist past, and the handsome Eamonn and his father, the British Home Secretary. As Parvaiz begins to follow in his father's footsteps, the two families intertwine in ways that will change them forever.
Told in five sections, with five protagonists, whose perspectives overlap and inform one another, Home Fire originated with Shamsie's plans to adapt the Ancient Greek tragedy Antigone. Here the author ta...
published: 02 Oct 2017
Kamila Shamsie on being stripped of writers' award over Israel boycott
Hundreds of authors around the world have spoken out in support of the British Pakistani novelist Kamila Shamsie, after she was stripped of an award because of her support for a boycott of Israel.
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Ms Shamsie was due to be given the Nelly Sachs Prize by the city of Dortmund in Germany, but the award was withdrawn after the judges said her support of the boycott was in contrast to the ideal of reconciliation that the prize exemplified.
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published: 07 Oct 2019
Kamila Shamsie: Home Fire
With her seventh novel, Home Fire, Pakistani-British author Kamila Shamsie has pulled off an improbable feat.
Home Fire is a work of great ambition (it's a rigorously researched story of global terrorism, drawing its structure from Sophocles' Antigone) and it's also a gripping page-turner. It's a stinging, and often funny, indictment on our facile political debates about terror, security and religious extremism. And it calls on us to recognise the humanity of both the powerless and the powerful in its story of citizenship and conflicting loyalties. The book's cast of characters includes an Islamic State media recruit, his twin sister and a British Home Secretary.
Home Fire won last year's Women's Prize for Literature in the UK and was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Shamsie has twic...
published: 08 Jul 2019
Kamila Shamsie - Burnt Shadows
http://www.bloomsbury.com/burntshadows
Kamila Shamsie talks about her book, Burnt Shadows, a powerful, sweeping epic crossing generations, cultures and continents.
In a prison cell in the US, a man stands trembling, naked, fearfully waiting to be shipped to Guantánamo Bay. How did it come to this? he wonders...
August 9th, 1945, Nagasaki. Hiroko Tanaka steps out onto her veranda, taking in the view of the terraced slopes leading up to the sky. Wrapped in a kimono with three black cranes swooping across the back, she is twenty-one, in love with the man she is to marry, Konrad Weiss.
In a split second, the world turns white. In the next, it explodes with the sound of fire and the horror of realisation. In the numbing aftermath of a bomb that obliterates everything she has known, al...
published: 18 Nov 2008
Novelist Kamila Shamsie discusses her journey as a writer
Get a more in depth insight into the themes in Kamila Shamsie’s Booker Prize nominated novel, Home Fire
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published: 20 Feb 2018
Great Writers Inspire at Home: Kamila Shamsie on writing history in A God in Every Stone
Kamila Shamsie reads from her 2014 novel A God in Every Stone, and discusses it with Prof. Elleke Boehmer and the audience. She speaks about the inspiration for the novel, who she writes for, and how she transforms historical facts into compelling narrative.
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Recorded: 4 May 2017
Contemporary Black and Asian British writing is changing how we see and read literature in English around Britain today. The Great Writers Inspire at Home series brings some of the best writers working in and beyond the UK into conversation with readers to discuss reading, writing, and how literature shapes our perceptions of the world and our identities within it.
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published: 29 Aug 2017
Author Kamila Shamsie shares her top tips for becoming a writer
Let author, Kamila Shamsie inspire you with her tips for aspiring writers everywhere!
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We sat down with Kamila Shamsie — author of Burnt Shadows and A God in Every Stone — to talk about her latest novel, Home Fire.
Spanning London, Massachusetts,...
We sat down with Kamila Shamsie — author of Burnt Shadows and A God in Every Stone — to talk about her latest novel, Home Fire.
Spanning London, Massachusetts, Karachi and Raqqa, the Man Booker-longlisted Home Fire follows the lives of five main characters who each identify in some way as British Muslim: Isma, Aneeka, and their brother, Parvaiz, living under the shadow of their father's jihadist past, and the handsome Eamonn and his father, the British Home Secretary. As Parvaiz begins to follow in his father's footsteps, the two families intertwine in ways that will change them forever.
Told in five sections, with five protagonists, whose perspectives overlap and inform one another, Home Fire originated with Shamsie's plans to adapt the Ancient Greek tragedy Antigone. Here the author talks about the process of reimagining Sophocles' classic play (and when to stop being influenced by a source) as well as how her own experience fed into the book — not least that of GWM: Googling While Muslim.
For more about the book and to buy, visit http://www.foyles.co.uk/witem/fiction-poetry/home-fire-shortlisted-for-the-costa-nov,kamila-shamsie-9781408886793
To read our written interview with the author, visit http://www.foyles.co.uk/author-kamila-shamsie
We sat down with Kamila Shamsie — author of Burnt Shadows and A God in Every Stone — to talk about her latest novel, Home Fire.
Spanning London, Massachusetts, Karachi and Raqqa, the Man Booker-longlisted Home Fire follows the lives of five main characters who each identify in some way as British Muslim: Isma, Aneeka, and their brother, Parvaiz, living under the shadow of their father's jihadist past, and the handsome Eamonn and his father, the British Home Secretary. As Parvaiz begins to follow in his father's footsteps, the two families intertwine in ways that will change them forever.
Told in five sections, with five protagonists, whose perspectives overlap and inform one another, Home Fire originated with Shamsie's plans to adapt the Ancient Greek tragedy Antigone. Here the author talks about the process of reimagining Sophocles' classic play (and when to stop being influenced by a source) as well as how her own experience fed into the book — not least that of GWM: Googling While Muslim.
For more about the book and to buy, visit http://www.foyles.co.uk/witem/fiction-poetry/home-fire-shortlisted-for-the-costa-nov,kamila-shamsie-9781408886793
To read our written interview with the author, visit http://www.foyles.co.uk/author-kamila-shamsie
Hundreds of authors around the world have spoken out in support of the British Pakistani novelist Kamila Shamsie, after she was stripped of an award because of ...
Hundreds of authors around the world have spoken out in support of the British Pakistani novelist Kamila Shamsie, after she was stripped of an award because of her support for a boycott of Israel.
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Ms Shamsie was due to be given the Nelly Sachs Prize by the city of Dortmund in Germany, but the award was withdrawn after the judges said her support of the boycott was in contrast to the ideal of reconciliation that the prize exemplified.
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Hundreds of authors around the world have spoken out in support of the British Pakistani novelist Kamila Shamsie, after she was stripped of an award because of her support for a boycott of Israel.
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Ms Shamsie was due to be given the Nelly Sachs Prize by the city of Dortmund in Germany, but the award was withdrawn after the judges said her support of the boycott was in contrast to the ideal of reconciliation that the prize exemplified.
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With her seventh novel, Home Fire, Pakistani-British author Kamila Shamsie has pulled off an improbable feat.
Home Fire is a work of great ambition (it's a rig...
With her seventh novel, Home Fire, Pakistani-British author Kamila Shamsie has pulled off an improbable feat.
Home Fire is a work of great ambition (it's a rigorously researched story of global terrorism, drawing its structure from Sophocles' Antigone) and it's also a gripping page-turner. It's a stinging, and often funny, indictment on our facile political debates about terror, security and religious extremism. And it calls on us to recognise the humanity of both the powerless and the powerful in its story of citizenship and conflicting loyalties. The book's cast of characters includes an Islamic State media recruit, his twin sister and a British Home Secretary.
Home Fire won last year's Women's Prize for Literature in the UK and was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Shamsie has twice won the prestigious Patras Bokhari Award in Pakistan for previous novels. Her body of work is characterised by in-depth research, and a preoccupation with the ways in which political events impact on individual identities and family ties.
In conversation with Sonia Nair at the Wheeler Centre, the ingenious Shamsie talks global faultlines and torn loyalties.
With her seventh novel, Home Fire, Pakistani-British author Kamila Shamsie has pulled off an improbable feat.
Home Fire is a work of great ambition (it's a rigorously researched story of global terrorism, drawing its structure from Sophocles' Antigone) and it's also a gripping page-turner. It's a stinging, and often funny, indictment on our facile political debates about terror, security and religious extremism. And it calls on us to recognise the humanity of both the powerless and the powerful in its story of citizenship and conflicting loyalties. The book's cast of characters includes an Islamic State media recruit, his twin sister and a British Home Secretary.
Home Fire won last year's Women's Prize for Literature in the UK and was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Shamsie has twice won the prestigious Patras Bokhari Award in Pakistan for previous novels. Her body of work is characterised by in-depth research, and a preoccupation with the ways in which political events impact on individual identities and family ties.
In conversation with Sonia Nair at the Wheeler Centre, the ingenious Shamsie talks global faultlines and torn loyalties.
http://www.bloomsbury.com/burntshadows
Kamila Shamsie talks about her book, Burnt Shadows, a powerful, sweeping epic crossing generations, cultures and contine...
http://www.bloomsbury.com/burntshadows
Kamila Shamsie talks about her book, Burnt Shadows, a powerful, sweeping epic crossing generations, cultures and continents.
In a prison cell in the US, a man stands trembling, naked, fearfully waiting to be shipped to Guantánamo Bay. How did it come to this? he wonders...
August 9th, 1945, Nagasaki. Hiroko Tanaka steps out onto her veranda, taking in the view of the terraced slopes leading up to the sky. Wrapped in a kimono with three black cranes swooping across the back, she is twenty-one, in love with the man she is to marry, Konrad Weiss.
In a split second, the world turns white. In the next, it explodes with the sound of fire and the horror of realisation. In the numbing aftermath of a bomb that obliterates everything she has known, all that remains are the bird-shaped burns on her back, an indelible reminder of the world she has lost.
In search of new beginnings, she travels to Delhi two years later. There she walks into the lives of Konrad's half-sister, Elizabeth, her husband James Burton, and their employee Sajjad Ashraf, from whom she starts to learn Urdu. As the years unravel, new homes replace those left behind and old wars are seamlessly usurped by new conflicts. But the shadows of history -- personal, political -- are cast over the entwined worlds of the Burtons, Ashrafs and the Tanakas as they are transported from Pakistan to New York, and in the novel's astonishing climax, to Afghanistan in the immediate wake of 9/11. The ties that have bound them together over decades and generations are tested to the extreme, with unforeseeable consequences.
Sweeping in its scope and mesmerising in its evocation of time and place, Burnt Shadows is an epic narrative of disasters evaded and confronted, loyalties offered and repaid, and loves rewarded and betrayed.
http://www.bloomsbury.com/burntshadows
Kamila Shamsie talks about her book, Burnt Shadows, a powerful, sweeping epic crossing generations, cultures and continents.
In a prison cell in the US, a man stands trembling, naked, fearfully waiting to be shipped to Guantánamo Bay. How did it come to this? he wonders...
August 9th, 1945, Nagasaki. Hiroko Tanaka steps out onto her veranda, taking in the view of the terraced slopes leading up to the sky. Wrapped in a kimono with three black cranes swooping across the back, she is twenty-one, in love with the man she is to marry, Konrad Weiss.
In a split second, the world turns white. In the next, it explodes with the sound of fire and the horror of realisation. In the numbing aftermath of a bomb that obliterates everything she has known, all that remains are the bird-shaped burns on her back, an indelible reminder of the world she has lost.
In search of new beginnings, she travels to Delhi two years later. There she walks into the lives of Konrad's half-sister, Elizabeth, her husband James Burton, and their employee Sajjad Ashraf, from whom she starts to learn Urdu. As the years unravel, new homes replace those left behind and old wars are seamlessly usurped by new conflicts. But the shadows of history -- personal, political -- are cast over the entwined worlds of the Burtons, Ashrafs and the Tanakas as they are transported from Pakistan to New York, and in the novel's astonishing climax, to Afghanistan in the immediate wake of 9/11. The ties that have bound them together over decades and generations are tested to the extreme, with unforeseeable consequences.
Sweeping in its scope and mesmerising in its evocation of time and place, Burnt Shadows is an epic narrative of disasters evaded and confronted, loyalties offered and repaid, and loves rewarded and betrayed.
Get a more in depth insight into the themes in Kamila Shamsie’s Booker Prize nominated novel, Home Fire
Did you enjoy this video? Find more at the British Coun...
Get a more in depth insight into the themes in Kamila Shamsie’s Booker Prize nominated novel, Home Fire
Did you enjoy this video? Find more at the British Council Library website: https://www.britishcouncil.in/library/discover
Get a more in depth insight into the themes in Kamila Shamsie’s Booker Prize nominated novel, Home Fire
Did you enjoy this video? Find more at the British Council Library website: https://www.britishcouncil.in/library/discover
Kamila Shamsie reads from her 2014 novel A God in Every Stone, and discusses it with Prof. Elleke Boehmer and the audience. She speaks about the inspiration for...
Kamila Shamsie reads from her 2014 novel A God in Every Stone, and discusses it with Prof. Elleke Boehmer and the audience. She speaks about the inspiration for the novel, who she writes for, and how she transforms historical facts into compelling narrative.
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Recorded: 4 May 2017
Contemporary Black and Asian British writing is changing how we see and read literature in English around Britain today. The Great Writers Inspire at Home series brings some of the best writers working in and beyond the UK into conversation with readers to discuss reading, writing, and how literature shapes our perceptions of the world and our identities within it.
https://www.writersmakeworlds.com
Kamila Shamsie reads from her 2014 novel A God in Every Stone, and discusses it with Prof. Elleke Boehmer and the audience. She speaks about the inspiration for the novel, who she writes for, and how she transforms historical facts into compelling narrative.
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Recorded: 4 May 2017
Contemporary Black and Asian British writing is changing how we see and read literature in English around Britain today. The Great Writers Inspire at Home series brings some of the best writers working in and beyond the UK into conversation with readers to discuss reading, writing, and how literature shapes our perceptions of the world and our identities within it.
https://www.writersmakeworlds.com
Let author, Kamila Shamsie inspire you with her tips for aspiring writers everywhere!
Did you enjoy this video? Find more at the British Council Library websit...
Let author, Kamila Shamsie inspire you with her tips for aspiring writers everywhere!
Did you enjoy this video? Find more at the British Council Library website: https://bit.ly/2HIW01G
Let author, Kamila Shamsie inspire you with her tips for aspiring writers everywhere!
Did you enjoy this video? Find more at the British Council Library website: https://bit.ly/2HIW01G
We sat down with Kamila Shamsie — author of Burnt Shadows and A God in Every Stone — to talk about her latest novel, Home Fire.
Spanning London, Massachusetts, Karachi and Raqqa, the Man Booker-longlisted Home Fire follows the lives of five main characters who each identify in some way as British Muslim: Isma, Aneeka, and their brother, Parvaiz, living under the shadow of their father's jihadist past, and the handsome Eamonn and his father, the British Home Secretary. As Parvaiz begins to follow in his father's footsteps, the two families intertwine in ways that will change them forever.
Told in five sections, with five protagonists, whose perspectives overlap and inform one another, Home Fire originated with Shamsie's plans to adapt the Ancient Greek tragedy Antigone. Here the author talks about the process of reimagining Sophocles' classic play (and when to stop being influenced by a source) as well as how her own experience fed into the book — not least that of GWM: Googling While Muslim.
For more about the book and to buy, visit http://www.foyles.co.uk/witem/fiction-poetry/home-fire-shortlisted-for-the-costa-nov,kamila-shamsie-9781408886793
To read our written interview with the author, visit http://www.foyles.co.uk/author-kamila-shamsie
Hundreds of authors around the world have spoken out in support of the British Pakistani novelist Kamila Shamsie, after she was stripped of an award because of her support for a boycott of Israel.
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Ms Shamsie was due to be given the Nelly Sachs Prize by the city of Dortmund in Germany, but the award was withdrawn after the judges said her support of the boycott was in contrast to the ideal of reconciliation that the prize exemplified.
Watch more of our explainer series here - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list...
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With her seventh novel, Home Fire, Pakistani-British author Kamila Shamsie has pulled off an improbable feat.
Home Fire is a work of great ambition (it's a rigorously researched story of global terrorism, drawing its structure from Sophocles' Antigone) and it's also a gripping page-turner. It's a stinging, and often funny, indictment on our facile political debates about terror, security and religious extremism. And it calls on us to recognise the humanity of both the powerless and the powerful in its story of citizenship and conflicting loyalties. The book's cast of characters includes an Islamic State media recruit, his twin sister and a British Home Secretary.
Home Fire won last year's Women's Prize for Literature in the UK and was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Shamsie has twice won the prestigious Patras Bokhari Award in Pakistan for previous novels. Her body of work is characterised by in-depth research, and a preoccupation with the ways in which political events impact on individual identities and family ties.
In conversation with Sonia Nair at the Wheeler Centre, the ingenious Shamsie talks global faultlines and torn loyalties.
http://www.bloomsbury.com/burntshadows
Kamila Shamsie talks about her book, Burnt Shadows, a powerful, sweeping epic crossing generations, cultures and continents.
In a prison cell in the US, a man stands trembling, naked, fearfully waiting to be shipped to Guantánamo Bay. How did it come to this? he wonders...
August 9th, 1945, Nagasaki. Hiroko Tanaka steps out onto her veranda, taking in the view of the terraced slopes leading up to the sky. Wrapped in a kimono with three black cranes swooping across the back, she is twenty-one, in love with the man she is to marry, Konrad Weiss.
In a split second, the world turns white. In the next, it explodes with the sound of fire and the horror of realisation. In the numbing aftermath of a bomb that obliterates everything she has known, all that remains are the bird-shaped burns on her back, an indelible reminder of the world she has lost.
In search of new beginnings, she travels to Delhi two years later. There she walks into the lives of Konrad's half-sister, Elizabeth, her husband James Burton, and their employee Sajjad Ashraf, from whom she starts to learn Urdu. As the years unravel, new homes replace those left behind and old wars are seamlessly usurped by new conflicts. But the shadows of history -- personal, political -- are cast over the entwined worlds of the Burtons, Ashrafs and the Tanakas as they are transported from Pakistan to New York, and in the novel's astonishing climax, to Afghanistan in the immediate wake of 9/11. The ties that have bound them together over decades and generations are tested to the extreme, with unforeseeable consequences.
Sweeping in its scope and mesmerising in its evocation of time and place, Burnt Shadows is an epic narrative of disasters evaded and confronted, loyalties offered and repaid, and loves rewarded and betrayed.
Get a more in depth insight into the themes in Kamila Shamsie’s Booker Prize nominated novel, Home Fire
Did you enjoy this video? Find more at the British Council Library website: https://www.britishcouncil.in/library/discover
Kamila Shamsie reads from her 2014 novel A God in Every Stone, and discusses it with Prof. Elleke Boehmer and the audience. She speaks about the inspiration for the novel, who she writes for, and how she transforms historical facts into compelling narrative.
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Recorded: 4 May 2017
Contemporary Black and Asian British writing is changing how we see and read literature in English around Britain today. The Great Writers Inspire at Home series brings some of the best writers working in and beyond the UK into conversation with readers to discuss reading, writing, and how literature shapes our perceptions of the world and our identities within it.
https://www.writersmakeworlds.com
Let author, Kamila Shamsie inspire you with her tips for aspiring writers everywhere!
Did you enjoy this video? Find more at the British Council Library website: https://bit.ly/2HIW01G
Shamsie wrote her first novel, In The City by the Sea, while still at UMass, and it was published in 1998. It was shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize in the UK, and Shamsie received the Prime Minister's Award for Literature in Pakistan in 1999. Her second novel, Salt and Saffron, followed in 2000, after which she was selected as one of Orange's 21 Writers of the 21st century. Her third novel, Kartography, received widespread critical acclaim and was shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys award in the UK. Both Kartography and her next novel, Broken Verses, have won the Patras Bokhari Award from the Academy of Letters in Pakistan. Her fifth novel Burnt Shadows was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction.
I had not, I daresay, read a Pakistani woman’s work before —Kamila Shamsie’s first novel, In the City by the Sea, came out in 1998 and I didn’t discover Attia Hosain until much later in life ... The thrill of a novel being so close to home was electric ... .
Eason offer ... READ MORE ... * ... * ... * ... Bette A ... * ... Bestselling novelist William Boyd judged the inaugural award in 2006, and previous NSSA winners Lucy Caldwell and Ross Raisin and previous shortlistee Kamila Shamsie judged in 2020, 2012 and 2010 respectively ... * ... .
Love, death, grief, power, revenge. Greek tragedies get to the essence of the human experience ... Kamila Shamsie’s novel Home Fire , set in modern Britain, Islamic State-controlled Syria and Pakistan, is a reworking of Sophocles’s tragedy, Antigone ... ....
(MENAFN - Gulf Times) Acclaimed authors Omar El Akkad and Kamila Shamsie engaged the Qatar public in a dialogue on human-made catastrophes and the art of storytelling at a special event at ... .
Acclaimed authors Omar El Akkad and Kamila Shamsie engaged the Qatar public in a dialogue on human-made catastrophes and the art of storytelling at a special event at Georgetown University in Qatar ...
... activist Dr Ahdaf Soueif at Georgetown University in Qatar's (GU-Q) Qalam series.The event was conducted by internationally acclaimed novelist and GU-Q's inaugural writer-in-residence Kamila Shamsie.
... Hamid, Saba Imtiaz, Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi, and Kamila Shamsie, pledged not to work with Israeli publishers, festivals, literary agencies and publications “complicit in violating Palestinian rights.”.
For their 10-gram Challenge, 40 artists have created sculptures from this amount of wax to be cast in bronze ... Through photographs by people such as David Byrne, OliviaLaing and Kamila Shamsie, this book will try to make you look at the world anew ... .
Georgetown University in Qatar (GU-Q) will host a literary conversation featuring Pulitzer Prize-winning author Hisham Matar in dialogue with internationally acclaimed novelist Kamila Shamsie.
