LAHORE- British-Pakistani author Kamila Shamsie has managed to garner countless fans courtesy her knack for writing.
Shamsie has now announced that her seventh novel Home Fire has led her to be shortlisted for this year’s Dublin Literary Award. Dublin Lit Award’s official twitter handle shared the news with a tweet that read, “The 2019 shortlist is out!” with a collage of all the books that have been shortlisted. Shamsie went on to re-share this via Instagram.
Kamila has received immense love all over the world as well as several accolades including the women’s prize for fiction in the UK as well as the Hellenic Prize to name a few last years.
Along with Home Fire, Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West can also be seen in the post. This isn’t the first time that both of our dynamic authors have been shortlisted together. Last year observed both Shamsie and Hamid nominated for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature and also longlisted for the prestigious Man Booker prize.
The books nominated for the award at the Dublin Literary Festival are chosen by the invited public libraries in cities throughout the world which makes the award unique in its coverage of international fiction. Titles are then nominated on the basis of ‘high literary merit’ as determined by the nominating library.
The Dublin Literary Award is an annual prize and the winner is awarded €100,000. The winning book will be announced on 12th June 2019.
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