BIOGRAPHY Nuzhat Amin Mannan’s poetry got a nod from Afsan Chowdhury in his article on Bangladeshi writers writing in English, written for Himal, published in the late ’90s from Nepal. Her poems have periodically appeared in different journals, magazines, and literary pages in Dhaka. She brought out her own collection of poems, Rhodedondron Lane in …
MAHMUD RAHMAN
BIOGRAPHY Mahmud Rahman was born in Dhaka, what was then East Pakistan. Living on Mymensingh Road, now Kazi Nazrul Islam Avenue, the road that led from the airport into the heart of the city, he grew up witnessing the motorcades of royalty and dictators, the passing of horse carriages in favor of buses and auto …
NIAZ ZAMAN
BIOGRAPHY Niaz Zaman is professor of English at the University of Dhaka. Her area of specialization is American literature. She has also published articles and books on women’s folk art. Among her major publications are The Confessional Art of Tennessee Williams, The Art of Kantha Embroidery — the first book-length study of the kantha — …
SYED MANZOORUL ISLAM
BIOGRAPHY Syed Manzoorul Islam holds a Ph.D. in English Literature from Queen University. Besides his collaborative work with Carolyne Wright translating the work of Bangladesh’s leading women poets, Dr. Islam has translated extensively from works of Bengali literature. PUBLICATIONS Selected Essays Aesthetics (in Bangla), Bangla Academy, 1996 Mapping ArtSouthAsia, 2002 Prem o Prarthonar Golpo,2006 …
ADIB KHAN
BIOGRAPHY Adib Khan lived in Dhaka till 1973. That year he went to Australia where he completed a Masters degree in English Literature at Monash University. Khan currently lives and works as a teacher in Ballarat. His interests include reading, philately, cooking, listening to Western and Indian classical music, chess and cricket. Khan’s first novel, …
SYED WALIULLAH
Life Time: 1922-1971 BIOGRAPHY Syed Waliullah (1922-1971) was a Bangladeshi novelist, short-story writer and playwright. He is the most well known in Bangla literature for his first novel, ”Lalsalu” (translated as “Tree Without Roots”, though it literally means “Red cloth”). Waliullah is often considered the pioneer of existential analysis of the characters psyche in the …
RAZIA KHAN AMIN
BIOGRAPHY: Dr. Razia Khan Amin, a renowned writer and poet who has also two collections of English poems to her credit. These are Argus Under Anaesthesia (Dhaka-1976) and Cruel April (Dhaka-1977). But very few readers are familiar with her English poems. Most readers know her as a poet and novelist in Bengali. She has also …
KHADEMUL ISLAM
BIOGRAPHY Khademul Islam is a former literary editor of The Daily Star. He was born in Karachi, Pakistan, and attended school there. Later, he studied international politics at Dhaka University (where he also taught for ten years in the Department of International Relations), and at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Boston. It was …
SABAHAT JAHAN
BIOGRAPHY Sabahat Jahan completed her higher education in the United States and since 2004 has been living and writing here. Graduating with a double major in English and Psychology from Angelo University and getting a Master’s degree from Baylor University in Texas, Jahan is an English Lecturer at North South University in Dhaka. One of …
AZFAR HUSSAIN
BIOGRAPHY Born in Bangladesh— “the biggest ghetto of the world,” as some political economists put it—Azfar Hussain had grown up in landless peasant and working-class communities before he moved to the capital of Bangladesh to attend Dhaka University. There he received his B.A. (Honors) as well as his M.A. in English with distinction. He had …
