Ahmede Hussain

Ahmede Hussain (born 16 July 1978) is a Bangladeshi writer, journalist and editor. He is the founding editor of the news portal The Deltagram.

His ancestors hail from the former Portuguese enclave of Patherghata, Chittagong in Bangladesh.

He was the Literary Editor of The Daily Star (Bangladesh) and left the newspaper in 2015. He is also a senior journalist with an interest in South Asian politics and strategic affairs.

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". He has finished writing his first novel.

Works

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.