Soniah Kamal

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BIO: Soniah Kamal is an award winning novelist, essayist, public speaker. Soniah novel, Unmarriageable: Pride & Prejudice in Pakistan is featured on PBS Books, Publishers Weekly hails it a ‘must read’ and Shelf Awareness has said that ‘ If Jane Austen lived in modern-day Pakistan, this is the version of Pride and Prejudice she might have written‘. Her work has appeared in critically acclaimed anthologies and publications including The New York Times, The Guardian, The Normal School, Buzzfeed, TEDX stage, The Georgia Review, The Bitter Southerner, Catapult and more. Accolades for Unmarriageable include a Financial Times Readers’ Best Book, a People’s Magazine pick, an NPR Code Switch and New York Public Library Summer Read Pick, a Library Reads pick, a ‘Books All Georgians Should Read,’ a Georgia Author of the Year for Literary Fiction nominee, is shortlisted for the 2020 Townsend Award for Fiction, and more. Her social media handle is @soniahkamal