Tahmima Anam
b. 1975
Tahmima Anam was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2016.
Tahmima Anam is an anthropologist and a novelist. Her debut novel, A Golden Age, was winner of the 2008 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book. In 2013, she was named one of Granta’s Best Young British Novelists. She is a Contributing Opinion Writer for The New York Times and was a judge for the 2016 Man Booker Prize. Born in Dhaka, Bangladesh, she was educated at Mount Holyoke College and Harvard University and now lives in Hackney, East London.
Articles by Tahmima Anam
On the Same Page: Tahmima Anam and Ian Rankin
A BBC Arts and Ideas podcast, part of Bradford Literature Festival
