Muneeza Shamsie was born on 1944 and is a Pakistani writer, critic, literary journalist, bibliographer and editor.
14 Facts About Muneeza Shamsie
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Muneeza Shamsie is the author of a literary history Hybrid Tapestries: The Development of Pakistani English Literature and is the Bibliographic Representative of The Journal of Commonwealth Literature.
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Muneeza Shamsie was born in Lahore, British India.
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Muneeza Shamsie's family migrated to Karachi, Pakistan at partition in 1947.
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Muneeza Shamsie grew up in a home where books and the written word were a part of family life.
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Muneeza Shamsie's aunt was the noted feminist and writer Attia Hosain.
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Muneeza Shamsie was sent away to school in England at the age of nine, and has written a memoir essay, "A Tale of Two Childhoods: Colonial and Post-colonial" in The Journal of Postcolonial and Commonwealth Studies 16.1, in which she juxtaposes her father's experience of England with her own, a generation later, and their respective adjustment to their homelands on their return.
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Muneeza Shamsie took Chemistry, Biology and History in her A-Levels and wanted to pursue a career in science - then discovered there were no careers for women scientists in Pakistan - in fact, Pakistan had few career opportunities for women at all, except education and medicine.
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All this while, in England Muneeza Shamsie had become very aware of the acutely limited and stereotyped images of the sub-continent in English literature, culture and film.
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Muneeza Shamsie is a founding member of a Karachi hospital, The Kidney Centre and a Life Member of The Association of Children With Emotional and Learning Problems, and she did voluntary work teaching music and mime at ACELP's school in the 1970s.
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Muneeza Shamsie is on the International Advisory Board of Journal of Postcolonial Writing and has guest-edited two of its Special Issue Volume 47 Issue 2,2011: Beyond Geography: Literature, Politics and Violence in Pakistan; and Volume 52 Issue 2,2016: Al-Andalus.
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Muneeza Shamsie is on the Advisory Committee of the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature and served as a 2013 jury member.
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Muneeza Shamsie is editor of three pioneering anthologies of Pakistani English literature, of which the US edition of And the World Changed Contemporary Stories by Pakistani Women received the Gold IPPY award and the Bronze Foreword Award in the United States.
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In 1968, Muneeza Shamsie married Syed Saleem Shamsie, a company executive, and they have two daughters, the novelist Kamila Shamsie, and the children's writer, Saman Shamsie.