Pakistani · b. 1973
Kamila Shamsie won the 2018 Women's Prize for Fiction with "Home Fire," a retelling of Sophocles's "Antigone" set among British Muslims caught between family loyalty and the War on Terror. The Pakistani-British author has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize and writes about Pakistan, Britain, and the spaces between. Shamsie's fiction examines how empire's aftermath shapes contemporary lives.