BIOGRAPHY
Dr Fakrul Alam is a noted academic and translator. A Professor of English at the University of Dhaka, he has written widely on literary matters. Among his publications are book-length studies of Daniel Defoe and Bharati Mukherjee.
Alam is perhaps best known for his translation of Jibanananda Das, the great Bengali poet. Earlier translators, most notably Chidanananda Dasgupta and Clinton B. Seely, had tried to convey the elusive quality of Das’s poetry to an Anglophone audience. When Alam’s volume Jibanananda Das: Selected Poems came out in 1999 on the occasion of the poet’s birth centenary, it was greeted with widespread acclaim. The book has proved to be popular with readers since then. The first edition having sold out, a second, expanded edition was published in 2003. Alam’s work is now regarded as perhaps the best (and certainly the most wide-ranging) translation of Das in the English language.
PUBLICATIONS
Imperial Entanglements and Literature in English (forthcoming from El Alma Publications, Kolkata).
Bharati mukherjee, Twane’s United States Authors Series (New York: Twayne Publisher, 1995)
Daniel Dofeo: Colonial Propagandist (Dhaka: University of Dhaka Publications, 1989)
Jibananada Das: Selected poems, translated with Introduction, Bibliography and Glossary (Dhaka: University Press Ltd, 1999).”
Dictionary Of Literary Biography: South Asian Writers In English (Dictionary of Literary Biography): Thomson Gale, 2006
