Kamila Shamsie

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Kamila Shamsie (2017)

Kamila Naheed Shamsie (born August 13, 1973 in Karachi , Pakistan ) is a Pakistani- British writer.

Life

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Kamila Shamsie comes from a respected Pakistani family; her mother is the journalist Muneeza Shamsie. Kamila Shamsie grew up in Pakistan and moved to London in 2007. She has both Pakistani and British citizenship.

In 2013 Shamsie was among the first 100 women on the BBC ; In 2018, she was one of the five judges who selected the winner of the one-time Golden Man Booker Prize .

Shamsie supports the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign, which seeks to isolate Israel economically, culturally and politically.

Award controversy

On September 6, 2019, the jury of the award decided to award the Nelly Sachs Prize of the City of Dortmund for the year 2019 to Kamila Shamsie. After it became known that Shamsie supported the BDS campaign , the decision was reversed by the jury. According to the jury, the support of BDS is contrary to the aims of the statutes and the spirit of the award. More than 250 artists and intellectuals from all over the world protested in an "open letter" against the decision not to award the prize to Shamsie.

Awards and nominations

Works (selection)

  • In the City by the Sea. 1998, ISBN 0-14-028181-9 .
  • Salt and Saffron. 2000.
    • Salt and saffron. German by Rebekka Göpfert. Berlin-Verlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-8270-0531-0 .
  • Cartography. 2002.
  • Broken Verses. 2005.
  • Offence: the Muslim case. 2009.
  • Burnt Shadows. 2009.
  • A God in Every Stone. 2014.
  • Home Fire. 2017.

literature

  • Jopi Nyman : Home, Identity, and Mobility in Contemporary Diasporic Fiction. Rodopi, Amsterdam 2009, ISBN 978-90-420-2690-2 , pp. 109-125.
  • Claire Chambers: British Muslim fictions: interviews with contemporary writers. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke 2011, ISBN 978-0-230-25233-2 , pp. 207-227.

Web links

Commons : Kamila Shamsie  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kamila Shamsie: Kamila Shamsie on applying for British citizenship: 'I never felt safe'. In: The Guardian. March 4, 2014, accessed September 12, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Carsten Hueck: Controversial award ceremony - Kamila Shamsie does not deserve the Nelly Sachs Prize , deutschlandfunkkultur.de, September 12, 2019, accessed on September 13, 2019.
  3. ↑ writer Kamila Shamsie awarded the Nelly Sachs Prize in 2019 the city of Dortmund. Information Service Ruhr, September 10, 2019.
  4. ↑ Dortmund is not awarding a Nelly Sachs Prize this year. September 18, 2019. (wdr.de)
  5. ^ Felix Stephan : Nelly Sachs Prize - Open letter to the jury. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. September 23, 2019, accessed September 23, 2019 .
  6. ^ The Right to Boycott. In: London Review of Books. September 23, 2019, accessed on September 23, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Shamsie, Kamila
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Shamsie, Kamila Naheed
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Pakistani-British writer
DATE OF BIRTH 13th August 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Karachi , Pakistan