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Popular As | Kamila Shamsie |
Occupation | Novelist |
Age | 50 years old |
Zodiac Sign | Leo |
Born | August 13, 1973 (Karachi, Pakistan) |
Birthday | August 13 |
Town/City | Karachi, Pakistan |
Nationality | Pakistan |
Kamila Shamsie’s zodiac sign is Leo. According to astrologers, people born under the sign of Leo are natural born leaders. They are dramatic, creative, self-confident, dominant and extremely difficult to resist, able to achieve anything they want to in any area of life they commit to. There is a specific strength to a Leo and their "king of the jungle" status. Leo often has many friends for they are generous and loyal. Self-confident and attractive, this is a Sun sign capable of uniting different groups of people and leading them as one towards a shared cause, and their healthy sense of humor makes collaboration with other people even easier.
Kamila Shamsie was born in the Year of the Ox. Another of the powerful Chinese Zodiac signs, the Ox is steadfast, solid, a goal-oriented leader, detail-oriented, hard-working, stubborn, serious and introverted but can feel lonely and insecure. Takes comfort in friends and family and is a reliable, protective and strong companion. Compatible with Snake or Rooster.
Notable for her Patras Bokhari Award-winning English-language novels Kartography (2002) and Broken Verses (2005), this Pakistani Writer is also recognized for her John Llewellyn Rhys Prize-nominated and Pakistani Prime Minister's Award-winning novel In The City by the Sea (1998).
After earning her bachelor's degree in creative writing from Hamilton College in New York, U.S.A., she completed her Master of Fine Arts degree at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
In addition to writing novels, she penned columns and book reviews for the British newspaper The Guardian.
The daughter of Journalist and fiction Writer Muneeza Shamsie, she grew up in Karachi, Pakistan, with a sister named Saman Shamsie.
She and Scottish Novelist Alexander McCall Smith both donated short stories to a 2009 Oxfam charity anthology titled Ox-Tales.