Zia Haider Rahman (Bengali: জিয়া হায়দার রহমান) is a British novelist who was born in Bangladesh and raised in the UK. His debut novel, In the Light of What We Know, was published in 2014 to international critical acclaim. In August 2015, Rahman was awarded the prestigious James Tait Black Memorial Prize, Britain’s oldest literary prize. In 2016 he was the recipient of the inaugural International Ranald McDonald prize. Rahman is an Eric and Wendy Schmidt Fellow at New America.