Tahmima Anam is the author of the Bengal Trilogy, which chronicles three generations of the Haque family from the Bangladesh war of independence to the present day.
Her debut novel, A Golden Age, was awarded the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book. It was followed in 2011 by The Good Muslim. ‘Anwar Gets Everything’, published in 2013 by Granta magazine 123 is an excerpt from the final instalment of the trilogy, Shipbreaker, which will be published by Canongate in the UK and HarperCollins in the US.
She lives in Hackney, east London, with her husband, the musician and inventor Roland Lamb.
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