Muneeza Shamsie

Muneeza Shamsie, a writer and critic, is a leading authority on Pakistani English literature and received the Sitara-e-Imtiaz in 2024. She is the author of Hybrid Tapestries: The Development of Pakistani Literature in English and the editor of four anthologies of Pakistani English writing, including the forthcoming In the New Century: An Anthology of Pakistani Literature in English. Her third anthology, And the World Changed: Contemporary Stories by Pakistani Women, received the IPPY Gold Award (2009) and the Foreword Bronze Award (2008) in the United States.

Muneeza is an Area Editor for the online Literary Encyclopedia, Pakistan’s bibliographic representative for Literature, Critique, and Empire Today (formerly The Journal of Commonwealth Literature), and serves on advisory boards for the Journal of Postcolonial Writing, the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, and the International Centre of Pakistani Writing in English at Kinnaird College for Women University in Lahore. She has chaired literary prize juries, including the Commonwealth Writers Prize (Eurasia) in 2010 and 2011. Based in Karachi, she regularly contributes to the Pakistani press.