Kamila Shamsie FRSL (Urdu: کاملہ شمسی; born 13 August 1973)[2] is a Pakistani and British writer and novelist who is best known for her award-winning novel Home Fire (2017).

Her mother is journalist and editor Muneeza Shamsie, her great-aunt was writer Attia Hosain and she is the granddaughter of memoirist Jahanara Habibullah.

[9] It was shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize in the UK,[10] and Shamsie received the Prime Minister's Award for Literature in Pakistan in 1999.

Something of a cross between Arundhati Roy and Salman Rushdie, she deserves a larger readership in the U.S."[11] Both Kartography and Shamsie's next novel, Broken Verses (2005), have won the Patras Bokhari Award from the Academy of Letters in Pakistan.

[14] According to Maya Jaggi's review in The Guardian: "Through its succession of seemingly disparate, acutely observed worlds, Burnt Shadows reveals the impact of shared histories, hinting at larger tragedies through individual loss.

[30] She delivered the 2018 Orwell Lecture at University College London, with the title "Unbecoming British: citizenship, migration and the transformation of rights into privileges".