Tahmima Anam
Tahmima Anam is the author of the Bengal trilogy and a recipient of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book and the O. Henry Award. Her short story ‘Garments’ was shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award. She is a Granta Best of Young British Novelist and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Born in Dhaka, Bangladesh, she trained as an anthropologist at Harvard University and now lives in London.
‘I have a complicated relationship with Bangladesh…’
Claire Armitstead
Guardian
“She had witnessed the birth of so many of these beings, held their hands as they left their sea-scapes and came ashore, but she had never allowed herself the thought that it might someday be hers”
“It could have been a smile, or it could have been a grimace. And the tickle in her throat could have been a chuckle or it could have been tears. It was mixed up: sad; funny; unfunny”
“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.