Background
Her father Mahfuz Anam is the editor and publisher of The Daily Star, an English-language newspaper in Bangladesh.
Her father Mahfuz Anam is the editor and publisher of The Daily Star, an English-language newspaper in Bangladesh.
Anam was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and grew up in Paris, New York City, and Bangkok, as a consequence of her father"s career with the Unicef.
In 1997, Anam completed her undergraduate education at Mount Holyoke College. She earned a Doctor of Philosophy in Anthropology from in 2004, for her thesis "Fixing the Past: War, Violence, and Habitations of Memory in Post-Independence Bangladesh." In 2005, she completed an Master of Arts in Creative Writing at Royal Holloway, University of London. Anam is the recipient of a Writing Fellowship from the Arts Council of England.
In 2013 she was included in the Granta list of 20 best young writers. Anam comes from an illustrious literary family in Bangladesh. Her grandfather Abul Mansur Ahmed was a satirist and politician whose works in Bengali remain popular to this day.
In March 2007, Anam"s first novel was published by John Murray.
She picked the Bangladesh Liberation War as her first subject to write the novel A Golden Age. Tahmima also researched the war which covered the central part of her post graduation.
Foreign the benefit of her research, she stayed in Bangladesh for two years and interviewed hundreds of war fighters. She also worked on the set of Tareque and Catherine Masud"s critically acclaimed film Matir Moina (The Clay Bird) which reflects the happenings during that war.
As of 2008, Anam, is author and contributing editor of New Statesman of United Kingdom.