Kamila Shamsie

Kamila Shamsie was a Pakistani and British writer and novelist (born 1973). She was born at Karachi.

Also recorded as Kamila Naheed Shamsie.

Kamila Shamsie in brief

Born
1973
Known for
writer and novelist
Place of birth
Karachi
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Identity and origins

The authorities additionally record the heading Kamila Naheed Shamsie. Her recorded languages were English and Urdu. Her recorded confession was Islam.

She was the child of Muneeza Shamsie.

Recognition and collections

Kamila Shamsie received BBC 100 Women, Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, Women's Prize for Fiction and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Catalogued works

3 works under this name are catalogued by Wikidata Query Service.

Home Fire. Burnt Shadows. Best of Friends.

Literature

11 scholarly publications naming this subject were located in the registry of record.

Kamila Shamsie, British Muslim Fictions. Kamila Shamsie, 2025. Shamsie, Kamila, Kindlers Literatur Lexikon (KLL), 2020. Autofiction, Colonial Massacres and the Politics of Memory, University of Bucharest Review. Literary and Cultural Studies Series, 2019. The Otherness in Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire / Kamile Şemsi’nin Yuvamıza Düşen Ateş (2017) Adlı Romanında Ötekilik, Folklor/Edebiyat, 2023. 'Glocalization' in post-9/11 literature. "Burnt shadows" by Kamila Shamsie, Journal of English Studies, 2016. Cognitive and pragmatic characteristics of Kamila Shamsie’s novel “Home Fire”, Известия Саратовского университета. Новая серия: Серия Филология, Журналистика, 2026. Idiomatic Confluences: Xenisms in Salman Rushdie's Haroun and the Sea of Stories (1990) and Kamila Shamsie's In the City by the Sea (1998), Études Britanniques Contemporaines, 2017. A Corpus Based Analysis of Sympathy in Language: Constructed Victimhood in Fiction, Corporum, 2024. Female Racial and Linguistic Exploitation Through Economics: A Marxist Feminist Analysis of Kamila Shamsie’s Selected Works, University of Chitral Journal of Linguistics and Literature, 2020. Transforming the Ich-Du to the Ich-Es: The Migrant as “Terrorist” in Kabir Khan’s New York and Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire, Text Matters, 2021.

Digitised editions and texts

2 digitised items associated with this heading are catalogued by Internet Archive.

Home Fire (2017) — Internet Archive. Burnt shadows (2009) — Internet Archive.

Scholarly footprint

Bibliographic registers publish measured figures for this heading: 33 language editions of the general reference literature carrying an article (Wikimedia (language editions)). A count of publications is evidence of attention, not of standing, and is given here only as a measure.

Evidence base

This article draws on 4 independent source lineages. Copies and mirrors of the same underlying record were collapsed into a single witness, so 4 means 4 genuinely separate publishers of record. 15 further registers were consulted and returned nothing for this heading.

In detail

Kamila Shamsie studied at University of Massachusetts Amherst, Hamilton College and Karachi Grammar School. the recorded working language is English and Urdu.

Membership is recorded of Royal Society of Literature.

Works named in the authority record are Home Fire and Burnt Shadows.

Distinctions recorded are BBC 100 Women, Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, Women's Prize for Fiction and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Chronology

  1. 1973Kamila Shamsie born at Karachi.
  2. 2009Burnt shadows digitised by Internet Archive.
  3. 2017Home Fire digitised by Internet Archive.

Sources

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  1. 1.

    “Kamila Shamsie”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading

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  2. 2.

    Wikidata, structured authority record Q3087962: Kamila Shamsie

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