Muneeza Shamsie
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Muneeza Shamsie is a Pakistani writer, critic and freelance journalist. She was born in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan into a literary-minded family, and was educated in England. She is the daughter of the famous Jahanara Habibullah. She grew up with a strong social and literary conscience, stemming from her mother's strong feminist and political views.
Shamsie lives in Karachi and regularly contributes to the Dawn newspaper, Newsline and She magazines on literary affairs. She also writes for the Journal of Commonwealth Literature and The Literary Encyclopedia. Her writing covers diverse topics, from archaeology to feminism, but literature has always been her main interest.
Shamsie was a delegate to the 1989 International Conference on English in South Asia, and there presented a paper on 'The English Novel in Pakistan'. The keynote speaker at the 1994 seminar on Toni Morrison in Karachi, her fiction has appeared in various anthologies and The Toronto Review. She is a founding member of the Kidney Centre in Karachi.
Shamsie's most acclaimed works are her compilation of the works of Pakistani writers who are writing in English. She is the mother of famous young Pakistani novelist Kamila Shamsie.
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- A Dragonfly in the Sun: An Anthology of Pakistani Writing in English (1997) ISBN 0-19-577784-0
- Leaving Home: Towards A New Millennium: A Collection of English Prose by Pakistani Writers (2001) ISBN 0-19-579529-6
- And The World Changed: Contemporary Stories by Pakistani Women (2005) ISBN 81088965-23-5
