# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/zia-haider-rahman
# Generated: 2026-08-14T23:46:02.252Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/zia-haider-rahman"
name: "Zia Haider Rahman"
slug: "zia-haider-rahman"
description: "Zia Haider Rahman is a British novelist and broadcaster. His novel In the Light of What We Know was published in 2014 to international critical acclaim and translated into many languages. He was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, Britain’s oldest literary prize, previous winners of which include Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene, J. M. Coetzee, Nadine Gordimer, Angela Carter, Salman Rushdie and Cormac McCarthy."
tagline: "British novelist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Zia_Haider_Rahman_2019%2C_Harvard.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1969"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.74
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.41242
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://ziahaiderrahman.com"
sources:
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    title: "Zia Haider Rahman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ਜ਼ਿਆ ਹੈਦਰ ਰਹਿਮਾਨ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zia_Haider_Rahman"
    title: "Zia Haider Rahman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bn.wikiquote.org/wiki/%E0%A6%9C%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC%E0%A6%BE_%E0%A6%B9%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC%E0%A6%A6%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B0_%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%B9%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A8"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Zia_Haider_Rahman"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16914140"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump