Kamila Shamsie

Kamila Shamsie  is the author of five novels:  In the City by the Sea, Kartography (both shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize), Salt and Saffron, Broken Verses and Burnt Shadows which was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction, and has been translated into more than twenty languages. She is a trustee of English PEN and Free Word, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.  She grew up in Karachi and now lives in London.