Ahmede Hussain

Ahmede Hussain (born 16 July 1978) is a Bangladeshi writer. His ancestors hail from the former Portuguese enclave of Patherghata, Chittagong in Bangladesh. He edited The New Anthem: The Subcontinent in its Own Words, an anthology of fiction from the Indian subcontinent. 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."^[1]

As of February 2015, he is working on his first novel. He is also a senior journalist. He was in charge of The Daily Star (Bangladesh)'s weekly supplement The Star (Bangladesh) for a long time. He is also a popular English literature and language teacher at Vertical Horizon,^[2] an educational service providing institution based in Dhaka. Hussain lives and works in Dhaka.

Works

• Hussain, Ahmede, ed. (2009). The New Anthem: The Subcontinent in its Own Words. Chennai, India: Tranquebar Press. ISBN 978-9380032450. 
• 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.

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