Zia Haider Rahman

Zia
Haider Rahman

Born in rural Bangladesh, Zia Haider Rahman was educated at Balliol College, Oxford, and at Cambridge, Munich, and Yale Universities. He has worked as an investment banker on Wall Street and as an international human-rights lawyer. Longlisted for the 2015 Orwell Prize and shortlisted for the James Tait Black prize, In the Light of What We Know is his first novel.

Born in rural Bangladesh, Zia Haider Rahman was educated at Balliol College, Oxford, and at Cambridge, Munich, and Yale Universities. He has worked as an investment banker on Wall Street and as an international human-rights lawyer. Longlisted for the 2015 Orwell Prize and shortlisted for the James Tait Black prize, In the Light of What We Know is his first novel.

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