Kazi Anis Ahmed (

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: কাজী আনিস আহমেদ) is a

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writer, publisher and businessman. He is a co-founder and publisher of the English-language daily newspaper ''

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'', online news portal ''Bangla Tribune'' and the literary journal ''Bengal Lights''. Ahmed is the author of three works of fiction. He is a co-director of the annual Bangladeshi literary festival,

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Early life and education

Kazi Anis Ahmed was born in

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. His father, Kazi Shahid Ahmed, is the founder and chairman of the Gemcon Group, and also a writer and novelist in the

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Career

Writings

Ahmed's first collection of short stories, ''Good Night, Mr. Kissinger'', was published by The University Press Limited in Bangladesh and launched at the Hay Festival Dhaka,

, in 2012. Ahmed's first novel, ''The World in My Hands'', was published by Random House India in December 2013. The book is a political satire that charts the fate of two friends – a newspaper editor and a successful property developer – whose relationship is bitterly tested when they find themselves on opposite sides of a crisis that upends their country's social order. An early work of Ahmed's, ''Forty Steps'' (3 novella), has been published in a bi-langual edition by Bengal Lights. It was translated into Bengali by renowned translator Manabendra Bandyopadhyay.

Business

Ahmed is a Director of the Gemcon Group, which was founded by his father, Kazi Shahed Ahmed, 1979. He has worked among other projects, for the Kazi and Kazi Tea Estate, Ltd. (KKTE). Ahmed Steered KKTE to emerge as the first successful organic tea estate in Bangladesh. He is co-founder of the Teatulia brand of Kazi and Kazi Tea, which sells in the USA, UK, Japan, China and other markets. He is a co-founder of

University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh ( bn, লিবারেল আর্টস বিশ্ববিদ্যালয় বাংলাদেশ) (ULAB) is a private liberal arts-based University in Dhanmondi, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Founded in ...

and the Vice-President of the Board of Trustees of the same university.

Publishing

Ahmed is also publisher of the English-language daily newspaper ''

'', the Bengali-language online newspaper ''Bangla Tribune'' and the literary journal ''Bengal Lights''. Ahmed contributes to international newspapers and journals such as ''

The New York Times ''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid ...

'', ''

TIME Time is the continued sequence of existence and event (philosophy), events that occurs in an apparently irreversible process, irreversible succession from the past, through the present, into the future. It is a component quantity of various me ...

,'' ''

The Guardian ''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'', and changed its name in 1959. Along with its sister papers '' The Observer'' and '' The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the ...

'', ''Daily Beast'', ''

Wall Street Journal ''The Wall Street Journal'' is an American business-focused, international daily newspaper based in New York City, with international editions also available in Chinese and Japanese. The ''Journal'', along with its Asian editions, is published ...

'', and ''Nikkei Asian Review''., and Politico He has co-curated special issues on Bangladesh in the literary journals ''

Wasafiri ''Wasafiri'' is a quarterly British literary magazine covering international contemporary writing. Founded in 1984, the magazine derives its name from a Swahili word meaning "travellers" that is etymologically linked with the Arabic word " safa ...

'' and ''

Granta ''Granta'' is a literary magazine and publisher in the United Kingdom whose mission centres on its "belief in the power and urgency of the story, both in fiction and non-fiction, and the story’s supreme ability to describe, illuminate and ma ...

''. He wrote the opening essay for the Puterbaugh essay series in ''

World Literature Today ''World Literature Today'' is an American magazine of international literature and culture, published at the University of Oklahoma. The stated goal of the magazine is to publish international essays, poetry, fiction, interviews, and book revie ...

'' in December 2015 and was published in the ''Journal of Asian Studies'' in 2018. Kazi Anis Ahmed, a writer and publisher of English daily Dhaka Tribune and online news portal Bangla Tribune, has been elected as the new president of PEN Bangladesh -- an international organization of writers, bloggers and journalists.

Literary works

*''Good Night, Mr. Kissinger'' (Unnamed Press, 2014), * ''The World in My Hands'' (Random House India, 2013) * ''Forty Steps''

References

External links

Official Website
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