- Renowned British Pakistani author Kamila Shamsie's book "Home Fire" has won the Women's Prize for Fiction, 2018.
- The book was also longlisted for last year's Man Booker Prize.
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- The novel is about love, radicalism and conflicting loyalties in the post-9/11 era.
- Founded in 1996, the annual British award recognizes and celebrates the excellence, originality, and accessibility in writing by women across the world.
Kamila Shamsie
- Kamila Shamsie is a fellow of the London-based Royal Society of Literature and was named a Granta Best of Young British Novelist in 2013.
- Her previous work "God in Every Stone" (2014), was shortlisted for the Baileys Prize, the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction and the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature.