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- 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.
Britain's Kamila Shamsie, one of the shortlisted authors for the Women's Prize for Fiction poses in London on June 6, 2018. / AFP PHOTO / Tolga AKMEN[/caption]
- 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.
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