Tahmima Anam was born on 8 October 1975, in Dhaka She is a Bangladeshi-born British writer, novelist, and columnist. At the age of 2, she moved to Paris when both of her parents joined UNESCO as employees.
At the age of 17, she received a scholarship for Mount Holyoke College, from which she graduated in 1997. She earned a Ph.D. in anthropology from Harvard University in 2005 for her thesis “Fixing the Past: War, Violence, and Habitations of Memory in Post-Independence Bangladesh.” Later, she completed her Master of Arts in creative writing at Royal Holloway, University of London.
Her first novel, A Golden Age (2007), was the Best First Book winner of the 2008 Commonwealth Writers’ Prizes. Her follow-up novel, The Good Muslim, was nominated for the 2011 Man Asian Literary Prize.
