"To see narrative not as a snapshot of yesterday's news, but to tell a story that goes over a space of time, that has links to other stories, that has different points of view within it, to me this is the only way I can understand a political moment."
Kamila Shamsie
Kamila is the author of five novels: Burnt Shadows (2009), shortlisted for the Orange Prize; In the City by the Sea (2004), and Kartography (2003) were both shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys/ Mail on Sunday Prize; Salt and Saffron (2000) and Broken Verses (2006). In 1999 she received the Prime Minister’s Award for Literature and in 2004 the Patras Bokhari Award – both awarded by the Pakistan Academy of Letters. Kamila lives in London and Karachi.
