Interview With Kamila Shamsie On The Power Of Reading
In this brief interview, Kamila Shamsie, a 2010 Anisfield-Wolf award winner, talks about the joy of reading, the upside of ebooks, and whether she considers herself a political writer. A must-listen...
View ArticleWhat Will We Do If Public Libraries No Longer Exist?
2011 Anisfield-Wolf winner Kamila Shamsie reflects on the availability of literature through the world’s public libraries—and what that means for future generations: “A couple of years ago, after a...
View ArticleGet To Know…Kamila Shamsie
Each week, we’ll be helping you to get to know our winners better (what a great bunch they are) and highlighting the best of their work, interviews and essays. We’ve dedicated this week to all things...
View ArticleKamila Shamsie Reflects On Her Hometown Of Karachi, Pakistan
Kamila Shamsie spent most of her formative years living in Karachi, Pakistan, a sprawling city on the coast where “you can live your entire life without ever glimpsing the sea.” Shamsie gives a...
View ArticleVIDEO: Kamila Shamsie Introduces The “Writer’s Bloc” Project
How do we change the face of education worldwide? Is it simply a matter of producing better teachers? Donating money for repairs and renovations of some of the most dilapidated schools? Is it by...
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What’s On Your Summer Reading List?
We don’t know what the weather is like where you live, but this weekend it’s going to hot and humid. Just the thought of 90-degree temperatures sends us scrambling inside for the air conditioning and a...
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Anisfield-Wolf Winners Both Attend And Object To The Brooklyn Book Festival
Brooklyn, N.Y. — The Brooklyn Book Festival—a celebratory, cerebral, free event that runs one Sunday in September—attracted tens of thousands of readers, and this year, a spike of controversy....
View ArticleAnisfield-Wolf Winners Fall On Both Sides Of PEN American Center’s Charlie...
More than 200 prominent authors—among them Anisfield-Wolf winners Junot Diaz and Kamila Shamsie—have publicly objected to the PEN American Center’s decision to present French satirical magazine Charlie...
View ArticleAt The Cleveland Humanities Festival, Author Kamila Shamsie Asks “Why Weep...
Novelist Kamila Shamsie has a knack for titles. She called her talk in Cleveland “Why Weep for Stones?” and built it into a riveting meditation on history, art, war and morals. Readers of her fiction...
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