# Event Details - **Event Name**: Uprising: Tahmima Anam on fiction and rebellion - **Event Start and End Date**: Tue, 23 Jun, 2026 at 07:00 pm – Tue, 23 Jun, 2026 at 08:00 pm - **Event Description**: Join the Orwell Prize finalist Tahmima Anam to discuss her new book Uprising.About this EventAny moment now, we would grow up, and we would become them, waking late and hungry and with a job that had no name.On a desolate, sinking island, a group of children witness their mothers living lives of cruelty and servitude. Bought and sold by Amma, the sadistic madam who was once herself sold into slavery, the women have learned to accept their fate.Yet their children weave fantastic tales of escape, imagining that someday they will leave the island and enjoy a life of freedom. When Kusum Khan, a young, educated woman from the city, is forcibly brought to the island, she too is subjected to Amma's violent induction. Yet Kusum refuses to yield, and soon the collective complacency of her fellow prisoners turns into ferocity and defiance.Together, they begin a rebellion that will upend their island, their world and the very order of things. An earth-shattering drama of resistance and female power, Uprising gives voice to the silenced through the story of a revolution no one saw coming.FINALIST FOR THE 2026 ORWELL PRIZE. The Judges said: "Dark, intense and powerful, this is a heart-breaking story of women and children enslaved on a small island. Uprising presents us with several women's trajectories as they are abducted or coerced into believing they were escaping poverty, only to be become prisoners and sex workers. When a newcomer opens the door for these women and their island-born children, will they find the means to defy the caste system, child abuse and gender hierarchies? Uprising will leave you breathless."About our speaker:Tahmima Anam was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh. She was selected as a Granta Best of Young British Novelist 2013. Her first novel, A Golden Age, was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and the Costa First Novel Award in 2007, and was the winner of the 2008 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book. Her second novel, The Good Muslim, was shortlisted for the 2013 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature and was also longlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize 2011. She lives in London. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/edinburgh/uprising-tahmima-anam-on-fiction-and-rebellion/100001991367451654 - **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, performances, theatre, entertainment - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 - **Event Highlights**: - Duration: 1 hour - Location: Lighthouse - Edinburgh’s Radical Bookshop - Languages: English ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 5.04, currency: GBP ## Event venue details - **city**: Edinburgh - **state**: SC - **country**: United Kingdom - **location**: Lighthouse - Edinburgh’s Radical Bookshop - **lat**: 55.9445833 - **long**: -3.1855200999999624 - **full address**: Lighthouse - Edinburgh’s Radical Bookshop, 43-45 West Nicolson Street, Edinburgh, United Kingdom ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Uprising: Tahmima Anam on fiction and rebellion - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events2/banners/28b2961d2b5af7eb6f0ea0bc5e204336af9b4dbf3800b2e179cfe56bcf07ac31-rimg-w1200-h675-dc02301c-gmir.jpg?v=1781105115 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Uprising: Tahmima Anam on fiction and rebellion being held? - **A:** Uprising: Tahmima Anam on fiction and rebellion takes place on Tue, 23 Jun, 2026 at 07:00 pm to Tue, 23 Jun, 2026 at 08:00 pm at Lighthouse - Edinburgh s Radical Bookshop, 43-45 West Nicolson Street, Edinburgh, United Kingdom. - **Q**: Who is organizing Uprising: Tahmima Anam on fiction and rebellion? - **A:** Uprising: Tahmima Anam on fiction and rebellion is organized by Lighthouse - Edinburgh's Radical Bookshop. - **Q**: Who is this event for? 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