Kazi Anis Ahmed
| K. Anis Ahmed | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1970 (age 46–47) |
| Nationality | Bangladeshi |
| Occupation | Writer |
Kazi Anis Ahmed is a Bangladeshi writer and publisher of the English-language daily newspaper Dhaka Tribune and Bengali-language online newspaper Bangla Tribune and the literary journal Bengal Lights. Ahmed is the author of two books: a short story collection called Good Night, Mr. Kissinger and a novel, The World in My Hands, published by Random House India. He has been called one of the most significant voices in Bangladesh today.
As an author of short stories and a novel, he is one of the leading propagandists of Bangladeshi English literature. Along with writers like Tahmima Anam and Maria Chaudhuri, Ahmed is part of a new generation of writers who use English to seek and reach international audience in the globalised world of the 21st century.
Ahmed's debut collection of short stories, Good Night, Mr. Kissinger, was published in Bangladesh and launched at the Hay Festival in Dhaka, Bangladesh in 2012. An American edition will be published in February 2014. The book has been hailed as a "poignant portrait of a city and the characters that live in the wake of great change" by fellow Bangladeshi writer Tahmima Anam.
Ahmed's first novel, The World in My Hands, was published by Random House India in December 2013. The book is a political satire that charts the fate of two friends – a newspaper editor and a successful property developer – whose relationship is bitterly tested when they find themselves on opposite sides of a crisis that upends their country's social order.
According to a January 2014 interview, Ahmed's next novel will be a comedy about foodies in New York.
In addition to his literary career, Ahmed runs Kazi & Kazi Tea Estate Ltd. with his family. Kazi & Kazi Tea Estate is the first USDA and SGS-certified 100% organic tea garden and cooperative in northern Bangladesh that is the single source for the tea company Teatulia. Teatulia tea is distributed in Bangladesh, the United Kingdom, the United States, and will soon be available in Japan.
His first book, a collection of stories entitled Good Night, Mr. Kissinger, was published in 2012 by The University Press Limited. His first published story, "Forty Steps," appeared in the Minnesota Review (Spring 2000) was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Ahmed has also written commentary for the Wall Street Journal Asia and Newsweek International/Daily Beast, as well as a number of Bangladeshi newspapers and magazines.
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