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Kamila Shamsie

Kamila Shamsie is a Pakistani novelist, who writes in the English language. She was brought up in Karachi and attended Karachi Grammar School.She has a BA in Creative Writing from Hamilton College, and an MFA from the MFA Program for Poets & Writers at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where she was influenced by the Kashmiri poet Agha Shahid Ali. Kamila wrote her first novel, In The City By The Sea, while she was still at UMass, and it was published in both India and England in 1998. It was soon shortlisted for the 'John Llewelyn Rhys/Mail on Sunday award in the UK', and she received the Prime Minister's Award for Literature in Pakistan in 1999. Her second novel, Salt and Saffron, followed up on her success, and was published in the United States, the United Kingdom, Pakistan and Italy. in 2000 she was selected as one of Orange's 21 Writers of the 21st Century. Her third novel, Kartography, received widespread critical acclaim and was shortlisted for the John Llewelyn Rhys award in the UK. Both "Kartography" and her most recent work, Broken Verses have won the Patras Bukhari Award from the Academy of Letters in Pakistan.
years of life: 13 kolovoza 1973 present

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hafsa daudje citiraoprije 2 mjeseca
‘Why does that feel even worse?’ she said to her father.

‘When you live in an unjust world you want sports to be a refuge, not a reminder.’
hafsa daudje citiraoprije 2 mjeseca
They were being flippant for Zahra’s sake but she could see the fear in them. As long as she could remember, there had been this feeling of threat stalking her, everywhere. Say the wrong thing, turn down the wrong street, allow yourself the mildest transgression, and some creature awful and unknown would swoop down on you, talons tearing into your flesh. And now it was here, in their midst, and it had entered in the guise of an old friend just to drive home the point that nothing, no one, nowhere was safe. She held on to her father, feeling the softness of his flesh, the breakability of his bones.

‘It’ll be OK,’ he told her, more foolish now than he’d ever been.
hafsa daudje citiraoprije 2 mjeseca
which meant Maryam didn’t know and couldn’t make everything better simply by knowing.

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