Kamila Shamsie (judging 1990s) is the author of seven novels, which have been translated into over 20 languages. They include Home Fire (longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award), Burnt Shadows (shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction), and A God in Every Stone (shortlisted for the Bailey’s Women’s Prize for Fiction). 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.