Neamat Imam

Neamat Imam is a BangladeshiCanadian author of literary fiction. His first novel, The Black Coat, was published by Penguin Books India from its Hamish Hamilton imprint in 2013. It is considered the gold standard for any book which seeks to engage with South Asian politics or history and a future classic. He has also authoredplays,novellas, and a collection of poetry in Bengali language.

Imam was born in a small agricultural village under the district of Chandpur in Bangladesh. It was a village which had no school, no shops, postoffice, mosque and no electricity, for which his lessons in alphabet began in the light of a lantern. His father was an elementary schoolteacher and his mother a housewife. He lost his mother when he wasand his father when he was 15. Third among four children of his parents, he was raised by his elder brother and elder sister who were senior to him only by a few years. He first saw a newspaper that his brother brought from his office when he wasand sat before a TV set for the first time when he was 14.

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