Kamila Shamsie citations

Kamila Shamsie est un écrivain anglo-pakistanais qui publie en anglais.

Elle est également journaliste à The Guardian et à la BBC. Elle habite à Londres.

Quand blanchit le monde est un roman traduit en français chez Buchet/Chastel en 2010 et publié en livre de poche.

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✵ 13. août 1973
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Kamila Shamsie: Citations en anglais

“How do you eat your roots?”

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“…I am absolutely not someone who thinks that politics is separate from the most intimate details of people’s lives…”

Source: On how politics still seeps into peoples’ personal lives in “INTERVIEWS: Kamila Shamsie” https://bookpage.com/interviews/21570-kamila-shamsie-fiction#.Xc2ItmNKjcs in BookPage (2017 Aug 1)

“I tend to be an optimist about human nature but a political pessimist…I think we’re living in very, very scary times and we have to find ways of looking squarely at it and finding reasons for optimism.”

Source: On balancing pessimism and optimism in “Kamila Shamsie: 'We have to find reasons for optimism’” https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jun/08/kamila-shamsie-we-have-to-find-reasons-for-optimism-home-fire in The Guardian (2018 Jun 8)

“I don’t have much time for the idea that art is some languorous thing on the sidelines, and that you have to wait 50 years before you address a subject…”

Source: On writing about a topic even if it is recent in “Kamila Shamsie: ‘Being a UK citizen makes me feel more able to take part in the conversation’” https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/aug/27/kamila-shamsie-home-fire-man-booker-longlisted-author-interview in The Guardian (2017 Aug 27)

“The thing you know in the abstract, but which you have to see, is the vastness of the place and how little relationship one side of it has to another. Mostly, the landscape is just unbelievably beautiful. You do a lot of looking and not that much thinking.”

Source: On living and travelling throughout the United States in “THE SRB INTERVIEW: Kamila Shamsie” https://www.scottishreviewofbooks.org/2018/08/the-srb-interview-kamila-shamsie/ in The Scottish Review of Books (2018 Aug 11)

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