Zia Haider Rahman

Zia Haider Rahman
Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2018
Born	Bangladesh
Nationality	British
Alma mater	Oxford University Cambridge University Yale University Stiftung Maximilianeum
Notable awards	James 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 (/ˈziːə ˈhaɪdər 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]