Granta News

Congratulations to Granta contributor Tahmima Anam, whose novel, A Golden Age, was named the Overall Best First Book at this year’s Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. Anam is a Bangladeshi writer who lives in London. After the announcement she said, ‘I’m honoured and humbled to be the first ever Bangladeshi winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. I wrote A Golden Age because I wanted the story of the Bangladesh war to reach an international audience. It is a story of great tragedy, but also represents a moment of hope and possibility for my sometimes troubled country.’

Read Tahmima Anam’s Granta story ‘The Courthouse’ here.

Canadian novelist Lawrence Hill’s The Book of Negroes was named Overall Best Book. The awards were announced at the Franschhoek Literary Festival, just outside of Cape Town, South Africa. For a full list of this year’s winners and more information, click here.