Shamsie

Kamila Shamsie was born in Karachi in 1973 and studied creative writing at Hamilton College and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is the author of multiple novels published in more than twenty-five languages. A God in Every Stone, published by Bloomsbury in 2014, was shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, and the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. In 2013 Shamsie was named among Granta's Best of Young British Novelists. Her work frequently examines how history and empire shape individual lives across borders.