Kamila Shamsie Author & Editor

Kamila Shamsie is the author of eight previous novels including Best of Friends, Burnt Shadows and Home Fire, which won the Women’s Prize for Fiction, was shortlisted for the Costa Prize and longlisted for the Booker Prize. Named a Granta Best of Young British Novelist in 2013, Kamila Shamsie is a Vice President of the Royal Society of Literature, and her novels have been translated into over 30 languages. She grew up in Karachi, and now lives in London.