as one of the BBC's 100 women. 2013: Named on Grantas list of 20 best young British writers 2018: Women's Prize for Fiction, for Home Fire 2019: Nelly Sachs Prize (rescinded, no new winner nominated), in honour of her literary work; however, the jury withdrew its decision to award the writer citing her support for the pro-Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement. A letter protesting the move was signed by hundreds of fellow writers in support of Shamsie. Books In the City by the Sea (1998), Salt and Saffron (2000), , Kartography (2002), Broken Verses (2005), Offence: The Muslim Case (2009), , Burnt Shadows (2009), A God in Every Stone (2014), , Home Fire (2017), Best of Friends (2022), See also List of people who support the BDS movement References Further reading External links Kamila Shamsie talks about Burnt Shadows on the BBC's World Book Club Kamila Shamsie at Bloomsbury Publishing Article in The Guardian on Kamila Shamsie "The Storytellers of Empire" in Guernica, 1 February 2012 Article on the London of Kamila Shamsie's Home Fire on the London Fictions website "Kamila Shamsie: Home Fire". Shamsien conversation with Sonia Nair at the Wheeler Centre. "Books by Kamila Shamsie and Complete Book Reviews", Publishers Weekly. Alison Flood, "Hundreds of authors protest after Kamila Shamsie's book award is revoked", The Guardian, 23 September 2019. 1973 births 21st-century British women writers BBC 100 Women British Muslims British women novelists British writers of Pakistani descent English-language writers from Pakistan Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature Hamilton College (New York) alumni Karachi Grammar School alumni Living people Naturalised citizens of the United Kingdom Pakistani emigrants to the United Kingdom Pakistani novelists Pakistani women novelists University of Massachusetts Amherst MFA Program for Poets & Writers alumni Writers from Karachi 20th-century Pakistani women writers 21st-century British novelists