![]() She also sits on the advisory board of the Index on Censorship.įor years Shamsie spent equal amounts of time in London and Karachi, while also occasionally teaching creative writing at Hamilton College in New York State. A reviewer and columnist, primarily for the Guardian, Shamsie has been a judge for several literary awards including The Orange Award for New Writing and The Guardian First Book Award. Shamsie is the daughter of literary critic and writer Muneeza Shamsie, the niece of celebrated Indian novelist Attia Hosain, and the granddaughter of the memoirist Begum Jahanara Habibullah. Her books have been translated into a number of languages. Burnt Shadows, Shamsie’s fifth novel, has been longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction. Both Kartography and her next novel, Broken Verses, won the Patras Bokhari Award from the Academy of Letters in Pakistan. ![]() Her 2000 novel Salt and Saffron led to Shamsie’s selection as one of Orange’s “21 Writers of the 21st Century.” With her third novel, Kartography, Shamsie was again shortlisted for the John Llewelyn Rhys award in the UK. ![]() This first novel was shortlisted for the John Llewelyn Rhys Award in the UK, and Shamsie received the Prime Minister’s Award for Literature in Pakistan in 1999. and a poet is a voyager From Damascus, love begins. for wherever You lean your head, a stream flows And poetry is a sparrow spreading its wings Over Sham. While at the University of Massachusetts she wrote In The City By The Sea, published by Granta Books UK in 1998. Selected PoemsofNizarQabbani of76 And fragrances perfume themselves with her scent From Damascus, water begins. She has a BA in Creative Writing from Hamilton College in Clinton, NY and an MFA from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. The following Poems for Kids and Poetry for Kids are specific themes, Arabic learning, Arabic Knowledge, and are appropriate for Kids, Toddlers, and young readers. ![]() Kamila Shamsie was born in 1973 in Karachi, where she grew up. ![]()
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