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German city refuses to award author Kamila Shamsie for lending support to anti-Israel movement | Lifestyle News, The Indian Express

German city refuses to award author Kamila Shamsie for lending support to anti-Israel movement | Lifestyle News, The Indian Express

By Lifestyle Desk |New Delhi |Updated: September 19, 2019 5:05:06 pm

German city refuses to award author Kamila Shamsie for lending support to anti-Israel movement

The author was quoted as saying how it is not fair for a jury to "bow to pressure and withdraw a prize from a writer who is exercising her freedom of conscience and freedom of expression."

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Author of Home Fire, Shamsie was recently declared winner of the Nelly Sachs Prize. (Source: File Photo)


Novelist Kamila Shamsie’s support for the pro-Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement has led to a German city withdrawing an award they were conferring on her. Author of Home Fire, Shamsie was recently declared to be the winner of the Nelly Sachs Prize. But, according to a report in Middle East Eye, the organisers informed that the jury has revoked the decision and, for 2019, no author will be awarded.

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