Tahmima Anam
Birthday: 8 October
Star sign: Libra
Qualification: Scholarship for Mount Holyoke College, PhD in anthropology from Harvard University, master of arts in creative writing at Royal Holloway, University of London.
Skills: writing
Languages: English, Bengali
Current Location: Bangladesh
Phone: 0330 330 9473
Tahmima Anam is a Bangladeshi-born British writer, novelist and columnist. Her first novel, A Golden Age (2007) was the Best First Book winner of the 2008 Commonwealth Writers’ Prizes. Her follow-up novel, The Good Muslim, was nominated for the 2011 Man Asian Literary Prize. She is the granddaughter of Abul Mansur Ahmed and daughter of Mahfuz Anam.