DBF-KMB Lecture Series: Keynote by Kamila Shamsie
The author of Home Fire delivers the keynote talk of the second edition of the lecture series focusing on South Asian contemporary art.
The DBF-KMB Lecture Series, New Dialogues: Contemporary Art from South Asia, brings together diverse voices to explore cultural, artistic and curatorial practices across South Asia and the diaspora.
From regional histories to personal mythology, in her keynote ‘The Borders of Imagination’, Shamsie reflects on both the under-imagined and the over-imagined, with particular attention to a novel that initiated her writing life and disappeared for 40 years after that.
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. A Vice President of the Royal Society of Literature, 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.
Presented by the Hayward Gallery in collaboration with Durjoy Bangladesh Foundation and Kochi-Muziris Biennale.
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This event is part of the DBF-KMB New Dialogues: Contemporary Art from South Asia lecture series. DBF-KMB lecture series: Panel Discussions also takes place at the Southbank Centre as part of the lecture series.
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