Kamila Shamsie is the author of eight novels, including Best of Friends, Burnt Shadows, and Home Fire which won the Women’s
Prize for Fiction and was longlisted for the Booker Prize. She is a Vice President of the Royal Society of Literature, and her novels
have been translated into over 30 languages. Her new novel Impunity will be published by Bloomsbury in 2027.
Follow us on twitter. The Young Writer of the Year Award is a prize of £10,000 for a writer under 35.
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