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Zia Haider Rahman
Zia Haider Rahman (ˈziːə ˈhaɪdər ˈrɑːmən) is a novelist who was born in Bangladesh and raised in the UK. His debut novel, ''In the Light of What We Know'', was published in 2014 to international critical acclaim.〔Critical reception of ''In the Light of What We Know''〕 In August 2015, Rahman was awarded the prestigious James Tait Black Memorial Prize, Britain’s oldest literary prize.
==Background==
Rahman was born in rural Bangladesh in the region of Sylhet and has said that his mother tongue was Sylheti and not Bengali, although he understands some Bengali.〔(WNYC The Leonard Lopate Show ) 1 May 2014〕 His family moved to the UK, 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. Rahman attended a comprehensive school. In an interview with ''Guernica'', he remarked that he "grew up in poverty, in some of the worst conditions in a developed economy.
Rahman took a first class honors degree from Balliol College, Oxford, with further studies at the Maximilianeum and Munich, Cambridge and Yale universities. He worked as an investment banker for Goldman Sachs in New York before practicing as a corporate lawyer and then as an international human rights lawyer focusing on corruption.〔() 12 January 2014 ''The Guardian''.〕 He has also worked as an anti-corruption activist for Transparency International.
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