Novelist Kamila Shamsie

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Kamila Shamsie

Living place: Karachi

Birthday: 13-8-1973 (51 years old)

Population of the world 1973: 3.937 billions

Global rank: #25281

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Who is Novelist Kamila Shamsie?
Notable for Patras Bokhari award winning her English-language novel Kartography (2002) and Broken Sentence (2005), this Pakistani writer is also recognized for her John Llewellyn Rhys Award nomination and novel Award-winning Pakistani Prime Minister In The City by the Sea (1998).
In addition to writing novels, she has written columns and book reviews for the British newspaper The Guardian.
 
 

Young / Before famous

After receiving her bachelor's degree in Creative Writing from Hamilton College in New York, USA, she completed her Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Family life info

The daughter of journalist and fiction writer Muneeza Shamsie, she grew up in Karachi, Pakistan, with a younger sister named Saman Shamsie.

Close relationship

Who is Boy (girl) friend/ wife (husband)/ darling Novelist Kamila Shamsie?
She and Scottish novelist Alexander McCall Smith both donated short stories to an Oxfam charity in 2009 titled Ox-Tales.

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When was Novelist Kamila Shamsie born?
Kamila Shamsie birthday 13-8-1973 (at the age of 51).
Where is Novelist Kamila Shamsie's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Kamila Shamsie was born in Karachi, of Pakistan. is a Novelist, whose Zodiac is Leo, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Ox. Kamila Shamsie's global rank is 25281 and whose rank is 110 in list of famous Novelist. Population of the world in 1973 is about 3.937 billions persons.
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Events in 1973 and 13-8

Events in the world in the birth year of Kamila Shamsie

  • Great Britain, Ireland, and Denmark enter European Economic Community (Jan. 1).
  • A ceasefire is signed, ending involvement of American ground troops in the Vietnam War. (Jan. 28).
  • US bombing of Cambodia ends, marking official halt to 12 years of combat activity in Southeast Asia (Aug. 15).
  • Chile's Marxist president, Salvadore Allende, is overthrown (Sept. 11); Gen. Augusto Pinochet takes power.
  • Fourth and largest Arab-Israeli conflict begins when Egyptian and Syrian forces attack Israel as Jews mark Yom Kippur, holiest day in their calendar (Oct. 6). Egypt and Israel sign US-sponsored cease-fire accord (Nov. 11). Background: Arab-Israeli Wars
  • Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) hikes oil prices tremendously in retaliation for Western countries' involvement in Yom Kippur War.

Birthday Kamila Shamsie (13-8) in history

  • Day 13-8 year 1521: The Aztec capital Tenochtitlán fell to the Spanish conquistadors after a three-month siege. Mark the end of a mighty Aztec empire.
  • Day 13-8 year 1906: An all-black army unit was accused of a shooting rampage that left 1 civilian dead at Fort Brown in Brownsville, Texas. In 1972 they were all exonerated.
  • Day 13-8 year 1942: Disney's Bambi opened at Radio City Music Hall in New York City.
  • Day 13-8 year 1961: The border between East and West Berlin was closed and marked with a barbed wire fence.
  • Day 13-8 year 1995: Baseball great Mickey Mantle died of cancer.
  • Day 13-8 year 2008: U.S. swimmer Michael Phelps won his 11th career gold medal, becoming the first athlete in Olympic history to do so.
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