Newly appointed Visiting Fellow, Kamila Shamsie, will be In Conversation with LMH Principal, Alan Rusbridger, on Friday 22 November 2019.
Kamila is the author of seven novels, which have been translated into over 20 languages. Home Fire won the Women’s Prize for Fiction, was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award and long listed for the Man Booker Prize; Burnt Shadows was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction and won the Premio Boccaccio (Italy); A God in Every Stone was shortlisted for the Bailey’s Women’s Prize for Fiction and the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature (India), and won the Anisfield-Wolf Award (USA). Three of her other novels (In the City by the Sea, Kartography, Broken Verses) have received awards from the Pakistan Academy of Letters. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and one of Granta’s ‘Best of Young British Novelists’, she grew up in Karachi, and now lives in London.
The event will take place in the Simpkins Lee Theatre at 5.45pm. Booking will open shortly via Eventbrite and lmh.ox.ac.uk/events