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Kamila Shamsie is a British-Pakistani novelist who structures her fiction around historical and personal turning-points: partition in 1947, the independence of Bangladesh in 1971, the nuclear attacks on Japan and 9/11.
Her first novel, , published when she was at university, was shortlisted for the John Lewellyn Rhys prize, as was her third. Her last novel, , won the coveted Women’s Prize for Fiction 2018. All of this means that there is a great deal riding
