Ahmede Hussain (born 16 July 1978) is a Bangladeshi writer.
His ancestors hail from the former Portuguese enclave of Patherghata,
Chittagong
Chittagong ( ), officially Chattogram, (, ) (, or ) is the second-largest city in Bangladesh. Home to the Port of Chittagong, it is the busiest port in Bangladesh and the Bay of Bengal. The city is also the business capital of Bangladesh. It ...
in Bangladesh. He was the
Literary Editor
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of
The Daily Star (Bangladesh)
''The Daily Star'' is a Bangladeshi English-language daily newspaper. It is by far the largest circulating English-language newspaper in the country. Founded by Syed Mohammed Ali on 14 January 1991, as Bangladesh transitioned and restored parl ...
.
He edited ''The New Anthem: The Subcontinent in its Own Words'', an
anthology
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of
fiction
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from the
Indian subcontinent
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. The book has been greeted with acclaim: "The richness is all, both in terms of the writers brought together and in the quality of the tales that come to you one after the other."
He has finished writing his first novel. He is also a senior journalist with an interest in South Asian politics and strategic affairs.
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Works
*
Blues for Allah, Published from Monash University * ''The Journal of Contemporary Literature'', an Indian journal, has published Ahmede Hussain and
Tabish Khair's conversations on literature, politics and the world today in its Volume 1, No 1 issue.
References
1978 births
Living people
Bangladeshi male writers
Writers from Dhaka
Writers from Chittagong
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