Tahmima Anam

Tahmima Anam was born in 1975 in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and grew up in Paris, New York, and Bangkok. She studied at Harvard University. Her debut novel, »Zeit der Verheißungen« (2010), attracted international attention and received the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. Her novel »Mein fremder Bruder« (2011) was awarded the Man Asian Literary Prize.