Anam Zakaria

Anam Zakaria is a Canada-based Pakistani writer, oral historian and educator. She is the author of the prize winning book The Footprints of Partition: Narratives of Four Generations of Pakistanis and Indians (2015) and 1971: A People's History from Bangladesh, Pakistan and India (2019). Anam holds an undergraduate degree in International development from McGill University and a Masters degree in Anthropology from the University of Toronto.[5][6][7] Anam has a ten-year career experience in the development sector. Since 2010, she has been involved with development and research work in Pakistan. She has worked as an oral historian on a project at the Citizens Archive Pakistan. She conducted interviews from the partition generation of Pakistan and was part of the team leading the exchange-for-change program between 2010-2013. The program was aimed at building peace among students of Pakistan and India. Anam has also worked in the education and energy sectors at the Association for the Development of Pakistan. She has also taught at the Headstart School. Winner: 2017 KLF German Peace Prize for her book The Footprints of Partition.