Kamila Shamsie

“Pakistani novelists writing in English — long overshadowed by literary giants from neighbouring India — are now winning attention and acclaim as their country sinks into violence and chaos,” reports Saeed Shah in a story for The Guardian. The report says “a new wave of Pakistani fiction is earning critical acclaim at home and around the world,” including such works as Mohsin Hamid‘s The Reluctant Fundamentalist (which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize), Mohammad Hanif‘s A Case of Exploding Mangoes, and Nadeem Aslam’s The Wasted Vigil. One writer with a hotly anticipated novel coming out in the spring, Kamila Shamsie, says, “Some of us have been writing for many years but suddenly we’ve had four or five novels coming out together and that’s created a buzz.”