Global Dialogues

Kamila Shamsie is the author of six novels, most recently Home Fire (2017) and A God in Every Stone (2014), which was shortlisted for the Baileys Prize and the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, as well Burnt Shadows (2009) and In the City by the Sea (1998). Her novels have been translated into more than 25 languages, and three have won awards from the Pakistan Academy of Letters. In 2013 Shamsie was named one of Granta’s “Best of Young British Novelists.” She grew up in Pakistan, studied in the United States, is based in London, and is now serving as writer in residence at Georgetown University in Qatar.