Tahmima Anam became a contributing opinion writer for The International New York Times in 2013. She is the author of the Bengal Trilogy, which chronicles three generations of a Bangladeshi family, from the war of independence to the present day.

Born in Dhaka, Bangladesh, in 1975, Ms. Anam was raised in Paris, New York City and Bangkok. She studied at Mount Holyoke College and Harvard University, where she received a Ph.D. in social anthropology in 2005.

Her debut novel, “A Golden Age,” published in 2007, was short-listed for The Guardian First Book Award and a Costa Book Award for best first novel, and won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book. It was followed in 2011 by “The Good Muslim.” She is at work on the final volume of the trilogy.

Ms. Anam was named one of Granta magazine’s Best of Young British Novelists in 2013. Her writing has been published in The New Statesman, The Guardian and The New York Times.

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