Abstract
Kamila Shamsie is a Pakistani novelist who divides her time between Pakistan, England, and the United States. She has written five critically-acclaimed novels. Her first novel, In the City by the Sea (1998), was shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize in the United Kingdom and also received the Prime Minister's Award for Literature in Pakistan in 1999. She then published Salt and Saffron (2000), Kartography (2002), Broken Verses (2005), and Burnt Shadows (2009), which was shortlisted for the Orange Prize in Fiction.