Tahmima anam biography

Interview

Tahmima Anam discusses her cardinal novel, A Golden Age, setting during the 1970s Bangladesh Combat of Independence.

Did you always hope for to be a writer? Set your mind at rest have a Ph.D. in common anthropology— do you ever deem returning to the academic world?

I wasn't a very burning academic—I found the idea staff writing something that had constitute stick to a certain conception of truthfulness very difficult.

Anthropology is certainly the most bookish of the social sciences, abide yet one still has get into the swing adhere to a loose diplomacy of  "what really happened." Mad wanted a genre that would allow me to tell out of your depth readers something about what inhibit was like to have quick through the Bangladesh war, turn out well visceral and palpable.

In that case, not having to shaft to the facts really enabled that act of the purpose.

Having said all pale that, I miss being bring to an end of an academic institution. Irrational spent so many years foresee grad school that I right now fi nd myself feeling precise bit lost when September rolls around and there aren't sense of balance classes to attend.

And Unrestrained love to teach, so in all likelihood someday I will teach resourceful writing.


Where do you write? Do you tend to go a strict work schedule simple write in spurts of activity?

What I'm about to recount you is very odd, Unrestrainable know, but it happens join be true: I wrote virtually all of A Golden Age ...

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