The 2025 PEN Lecture with Kamila Shamsie
The 2025 PEN Lecture is hosted in partnership with New Writing North and the Newcastle Centre for the Literary Arts, with support from Gem Arts.
Kamila Shamsie is the author of eight novels, including Best of Friends, Burnt Shadows, Kartography, and Home Fire which won the Women’s Prize for Fiction (2018). A Vice President of the Royal Society of Literature and former Vice President of English PEN, she grew up in Karachi and now lives in London and in Doha where she is the inaugural Writer in Residence at Georgetown University in Qatar. Her novels have been translated into over 30 languages.
Book sales and signing with Forum Books after the event.
