Tahmima Anam
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Anam at the Free Word Centre, London in November 2015
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| Native name | তাহমিমা আনাম |
| Born |
8 October 1975 Dhaka, Bangladesh |
| Occupation | Writer, novelist, columnist |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | British Bangladeshi |
| Ethnicity | Bengali |
| Education |
PhD Anthropology, MA Creative Writing |
| Alma mater |
Mount Holyoke College Harvard University Royal Holloway, University of London |
| Years active | 2007–present |
| Spouse | Roland O. Lamb (m. 2010) |
| Relatives |
Mahfuz Anam (father) Abul Mansur Ahmed (paternal grandfather) |
Tahmima Anam (Bengali: তাহমিমা আনাম; born 8 October 1975) is a British Bangladeshi writer, novelist and columnist. Her first novel, A Golden Age, was published by John Murray in 2007 and was the Best First Book winner of the 2008 Commonwealth Writers' Prize. In 2013 she was included in the Granta list of 20 best young writers. Her follow-up novel ‘The Good Muslim’ was nominated for the 2011 Man Asian Literary Prize.
Anam comes from an illustrious literary family in Bangladesh. Her father Mahfuz Anam is the editor and publisher of The Daily Star, an English-language newspaper in Bangladesh. Her grandfather Abul Mansur Ahmed was a satirist and politician whose works in Bengali remain popular to this day.
Anam was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and grew up in Paris, New York City, and Bangkok, as a consequence of her father's career with the Unicef.
In 1997, Anam completed her undergraduate education at Mount Holyoke College. She earned a PhD in Anthropology from Harvard University in 2004, for her thesis "Fixing the Past: War, Violence, and Habitations of Memory in Post-Independence Bangladesh." In 2005, she completed an MA in Creative Writing at Royal Holloway, University of London. Anam is the recipient of a Writing Fellowship from the Arts Council of England.
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