THE MANCHESTER REVIEW: Manchester Literature Festival: Kamila Shamsie with Jeanette Winterson, reviewed by Namra Amir

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The evening began with John McAuliffe, Co-Director for the Centre of New Writing, proudly introducing Professor Jeanette Winterson,  Professor of the Centre for New Writing since 2012 and Kamila Shamsie, novelist, columnist and a reviewer. Born in Pakistan, Karachi in 1973 to a family of women writers (her mother is Pakistani critic Muneeza Shamsie and great-aunt author Attia Hosain), Shamsie is the author of six novels, including Kartography (2002) and Burnt Shadows (2009) which was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction and most recently, Shamsie’s novel Home Fire which was longlisted for the International Man Booker Prize 2017.