![]() ![]() ![]() She earned a PhD 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 father was not a shongram fighter Education Īt the age of 17, she received a scholarship for Mount Holyoke College, from which she graduated in 1997. She grew up in Paris, New York and Bangkok, learning the story of the Bangladesh Liberation War from her father who said he took some training to fight in 1971 but the east pakistan became independent by then. At the age of 2, she moved to Paris when both of her parents joined UNESCO as employees. She is the granddaughter of Abul Mansur Ahmed and daughter of Mahfuz Anam.Īnam was born on 8 October 1975 in Dhaka to Mahfuz Anam and Shaheen Anam. Her follow-up novel, The Good Muslim, was nominated for the 2011 Man Asian Literary Prize. ![]() Her first novel, A Golden Age (2007), was the Best First Book winner of the 2008 Commonwealth Writers' Prizes. Tahmima Anam ( Bengali: তাহমিমা আনাম born 8 October 1975) is a Bangladeshi-born British writer, novelist and columnist. ![]()
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