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. 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. Rahman was born in Bangladesh in the region of Sylhet. His mother tongue is Bengali. His family moved to England when Rahman was small, where they were squatters in a derelict building before being moved to a council estate. His father was a bus conductor and waiter and his mother a seamstress. He attended Hampstead comprehensive school in London. In an interview with Guernica, he said that he "grew up in poverty, in some of the worst conditions in a developed economy." More information...
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