<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>[Apologies for cross-posting]<br><div><br><div><font size="5"><font><span style="font-size: 16pt; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#800000">UTS:IOSARN Public Lecture Invitation</font><br></b></span></font></font><font><span style="font-size: 11pt; "><br><b>The Indian Ocean and South Asia Research Network (IOSARN)</b> is pleased to announce a <b>Public Lecture</b> by<font class="Apple-style-span" color="#B3B3B3"><br></font><br></span><font size="5"><span style="font-size: 16pt; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">KAMILA SHAMSIE</font></b></span></font></font></div><div><font><font size="5"><span style="font-size: 16pt; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Novelist from Pakistan</font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><br><br>'Fictions of History'</font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </font></span></font></b></span></font></font></div><div><br></div><div><font><font size="5"><span style="font-size: 16pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">A lecture followed by a reading of her latest novel </span><b><i>Burnt Shadows</i></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">.</span></font></span></font></font></div><div><font><span style="font-size: 11pt; "><br></span><font size="4"><span style="font-size: 14pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">DATE: Tuesday, 1st September<br>TIME: 5.30 for 6 pm<br>WHERE: UTS Blake Library, (</font><a href="http://www.uts.edu.au/about/mapsdirections/hay.html"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Bldg CM05A</font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">, City Campus), Corner Quay St & Ultimo Rd, Haymarket, Level 4, Room 4g. </font></span></font></font></div><div><font><font size="4"><span style="font-size: 14pt; "><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">COST: Free Lecture</font></div></span></font></font></div><div><br></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><b>Please RSVP:</b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"> <a href="mailto:Cornelia.Betzler@uts.edu.au">Cornelia.Betzler@uts.edu.au</a></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><b>Kamila Shamsie</b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"> is visiting UTS after her appearance at the Melbourne Writers Festival presenting her latest novel </span><b><i>Burnt Shadows</i></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"> which is listed for the 2009 Orange Prize. </span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">The lecture and reading start at 6 pm, there will be drinks and light snacks after. The Co-op Bookshop will be selling </span><b><i>Burnt Shadows</i></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"> copies at the lecture venue.</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br></span></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; ">Biographical Information:</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">Kamila Shamsie was born in 1973 in Pakistan. She is the author of four previous novels: In the City by the Sea, Kartography (both shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys/Mail on Sunday Prize), Salt and Saffron and Broken Verses. In 1999 she received the Prime Minister’s Award for Literature and in 2004 the Patras Bokhari Award – both award by the Pakistan Academy of Letters. Kamila Shamsie lives in London and Karachi. Burnt Shadows has been shortlisted for the Orange Prize for fiction 2009.</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">Please visit the <a href="http://iosarn.com/events/public-lectures/">IOSARN website</a> for more information on </span><i>Burnt Shadows</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">.</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><b><i>See you there!</i></b></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">*****************</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br></span></font></div></span></font></div><div><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; 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