Tahmima Anam

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Tahmima Anam (Bengali: তাহমিমা আনাম) is a Bangladesh born writer and novelist. Her first novel, A Golden Age, was published by John Murray in 2007.

1 Personal life
2 Career
3 Literary works
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Personal life

Tahmima Anam was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh in 1975, and grew up in Paris, New York City, and Bangkok, as a consequence of her father’s career with the Unicef.^[1] She completed her undergraduate education at Mount Holyoke College in 1997. She trained as an anthropologist, earning a PhD from Harvard University. In 2005 she completed an MA in Creative Writing at Royal Holloway, London. Anam is the recipient of a Writing Fellowship from the Arts Council of England.

Anam comes from an illustrious literary family in Bangladesh. Her father Mahfuz Anam is the editor and publisher of The Daily Star (Bangladesh), Bangladesh's most prominent English newspaper.^[2] Her grandfather Abul Mansur Ahmed was a renowned satirist and politician whose works in Bengali remain popular to this day.^[3]

[edit] Career

Anam's first novel was published in March, 2007 by John Murray. Tahmima picked Bangladesh Liberation War as her first subject to write the novel A Golden Age. She was inspired by her parents who were freedom fighters during the war.^[4] Tahmima also researched about the war which covered the central part of her post graduation. For the benefit of her research, she stayed in Bangladesh for two years and took interview of hundreds of war fighters. She also worked in the set of Tareque and Catherine Masud’s critically acclaimed film Matir Moina (The Clay Bird) which reflects the happenings during that war.^[5]