Tahmima Anam
Tahmima Anam’s debut novel, A Golden Age, was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and was winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book. Her follow up, The Good Muslim, was shortlisted for the 2013 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. She has been published in the Guardian, the Financial Times, and is a Contributing Opinion Writer for The New York Times. In 2013, she was named one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists. Born in Dhaka, Bangladesh, she now lives in London.
‘I have a complicated relationship with Bangladesh…’
Claire Armitstead
Guardian
“I’ve only ever been a hair away from being utterly alone in the world”
Watch The Garden of Readin’s review of The Bones of Grace
What advice would you offer to aspiring writers? – Mumsnet. ‘Read obsessively. There is no better training for writing than reading.’ – Tahmima
Read Tahmima's interview with Mumsnet
Mumsnet
A beautiful trailer for The Bones of Grace by Tahmima Anam.