Muneeza Shamsie
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''''Muneeza Shamsie (nee Habibullah) is a Pakistani writer, critic and freelance journalist. She was born in Lahore, Pakistan into a literary-minded family, and was educated in England. She is daughter of the writer Jahanara Habibullah. She grew up with a strong social and literary conscience stemming from the political and feminist views of Begum Inam Habibullah, her paternal grandmother.
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 archeology to feminism, but literature has always been her main interest.
Shamsie was a Fellow of the 1999 Cambridge Seminar on the Contemporary British writer and has spoken about Pakistani English literature several literary forums. She was a delegate to the 1989 International Conference on English in South Asia where she presented a paper on 'The English Novel in Pakistan'. Her short fiction has appeared in various anthologies and The Toronto Review. She is a founding member of a Karachi hospital the Kidney Centre.
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 81-88965-23-5
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