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. His debut novel, In the Light of What We Know, is forthcoming from FSG.


Articles by Zia Haider Rahman

Global Free ExpressionU.S. Free Expression
Friday November 6

Free Writing

The recent winner of Britain’s oldest literary award doesn’t think his debut novel would have found success if it had first been published in his native Bangladesh.

World Voices Festival
Wednesday April 9

In the Light of What We Know

My professional life has been spent in finance, a business concerned with fine points, such as the small movement in exchange rates on which the fate of millions of dollars or pounds or yen could hang.