Tahmima Anam

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In March 2007, Anam's first novel, A Golden Age, was published by John Murray. Inspired by her parents, she set the novel during the Bangladesh Liberation War. She had also researched the war during her post-graduation career. For the benefit of her research, she stayed in Bangladesh for two years and interviewed hundreds of war fighters, known as shongram fighers. She also worked on the set of Tareque and Catherine Masud’s critically acclaimed film Matir Moina (The Clay Bird), which reflects the events during that war.

In 2011, The Good Muslim, a sequel to A Golden Age, was published and long-listed for the Man Asian Literary Prize. In 2015, her short story "Garments", inspired by the Rana plaza building collapse, was published and won the O. Henry Award and was shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award. At the same year, she became a judge for The Man Booker International Prize 2016.

In 2016, her novel The Bones of Grace was published by HarperCollins. The following year, she was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Anam's op-ed pieces have been published in The New York Times, The Guardian and in the New Statesman. In these, Anam has written about Bangladesh and its growing problems.

In 2021, her novel The Startup Wife was published by Canongate Books. It was selected as a Best Book of 2021 by the Observer, Stylist, Cosmopolitan, Red and the Daily Mail.

In 2022, Anam gave a TEDx talk entitled "The Power of Holding Silence: Making the Workplace Work for Women". That same year, Anam's debut, A Golden Age, was chosen for the Queen’s jubilee book list, a list of 70 books from across the Commonwealth marking the seven decades of her reign.

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