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Kamila Shamsie

Kamila Shamsie was born in Karachi, Pakistan, in 1973. She has received degrees from Hamilton College, Clinton, New York and the University of Massachusetts. This is her first novel.

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Fiction|The Online Edition
Fiction|The Online Edition

Kamila Shamsie: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 73

John Freeman & Kamila Shamsie

Continuing our Best of Young British Novelists we hear from Kamila Shamsie. Shamsie is the...

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Vipers

Kamila Shamsie

‘Cover your nose and mouth, the order came, swift and useless; if they’d had their turbans they would have wound them around their faces but there were only the balaclavas.’

Essays & Memoir|The Online Edition
Essays & Memoir|The Online Edition

How to write about Pakistan

Various Contributors

Four contributors to our Pakistan issue – Mohsin Hamid, Mohammed Hanif, Daniyal Mueenuddin and Kamila Shamsie...

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Pop Idols

Kamila Shamsie

‘In our grandmother’s generation, when people became more religious, they turned devout. Now they turn fundamentalist.’

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