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Education—Brown, Washington and New York Universities

 Bibliography

• The World in My Hands, Vintage Books (2013)

• Good Night, Mr. Kissinger, University Press Ltd Bangladesh(2012)

Ahmed is also a co-founder of the University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh, and is involved in a range of enterprises, including Teatuia, the country’s first and only organic tea garden and cooperative.

His first book, a collection of stories entitled Good Night, Mr. Kissinger, was published in 2012 by The University Press Limited. His first published story, “Forty Steps,” appeared in the Minnesota Review (Spring 2000) was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Ahmed has also written commentary for the Wall Street Journal Asia and Newsweek International/Daily Beast, as well as a number of Bangladeshi newspapers and magazines.

Ahmed studied at Brown, Washington and New York Universities before returning to Bangladesh in 2004. In the US, Ahmed studied with Edmund White and Stanley Elkin, among others.

He lives in the capital, Dhaka, with his wife and son, and is currently at work on a novel.

Good Night, Mr. Kissinger (2012)
K. Anis Ahmed
In his dotage, Henry Kissinger has come to resemble Emperor Palpatine from Star Wars. After his five decades of insidious influence on US foreign policy, his face has crumpled into a ripple of wrinkles, but the eyes retain their wily luster. When he enters a room, he does so briskly, and his somber suits barely contain his contempt for those who repeat the accusations that have been gaining traction since the end of the Cold War

The World In My Hands
K. Anis Ahmed
The World In My Hands, a novel by K Anis Ahmed, publisher of the Dhaka Tribune and the Bengal Lights literary journal, was published by Random House India. It is Ahmed’s second book and follows closely on the heels of his debut collection of short stories, Goodnight, Mr Kissinger.