Kamila Shamsie is the author of eight novels which have been translated into over 30 languages. Her novels include Burnt Shadows, Kartography, and Home Fire which won the Women’s Prize for Fiction, was shortlisted for the Costa award, and long listed for the Booker Prize. She is a Vice-President of the Royal Society of Literature, and was one of Granta’s ‘Best of Young British Novelists’ in 2013. Her latest novel, Impunity, is forthcoming from Bloomsbury in May 2027.
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