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Zia Haider Rahman
Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2018
Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2018
BornBangladesh
NationalityBritish
Alma materOxford University
Cambridge University
Yale University
Stiftung Maximilianeum
Notable awardsJames Tait Black Memorial Prize
Harvard University, Radcliffe Fellowship
New America, Eric and Wendy Schmidt Fellowship
Dartmouth College, Montgomery Fellowship
Southern New Hampshire University, Honorary Doctorate
Website
www.ziahaiderrahman.com

Zia Haider Rahman (/ˈzə ˈhdər ˈrɑːmən/) (listen) is a British novelist and broadcaster. His novel In the Light of What We Know was published in 2014 to international critical acclaim and translated into many languages.[1] He was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, Britain’s oldest literary prize, previous winners of which include Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene, J. M. Coetzee, Nadine Gordimer, Angela Carter, Salman Rushdie and Cormac McCarthy.[2]

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