About Tahmima
Tahmima Anam was born on 8 October 1975 in Dhaka, Bangladesh. She earned degrees from Mount Holyoke College, Royal Holloway University of London, and Harvard University, where she completed a PhD in anthropology. Her debut novel A Golden Age (2007) won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book in 2008 and was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award. She has published five novels including The Good Muslim, The Bones of Grace, The Startup Wife, and Uprising. Her 2015 short story "Garments" won the O. Henry Award.
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- Author of A Golden Age, winner of 2008 Commonwealth Writers Prize
- Granta Best Young British Novelist 2013
- Opinion writing for The New York Times
- Judge for 2016 Man Booker Prize
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