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, …
Life Time: 1954 BIOGRAPHY Syed Badrul Ahsan was born in 1954, went to school in Quetta, Pakistan, and graduated in English literature from Dhaka University in 1979. He started teaching at Notre Dame College, Dhaka, in 1982. Within a few years, he took up print journalism, working for various English language newspapers in Bangladesh. He …
Life Time: 1954 BIOGRAPHY Afsan Chowdhury, Director of Advocacy and Human Rights, was born in 1954. He has an MA in History from Dhaka University. He has spent two decades working in print media, radio, and television. He was an editor at various newspapers, and Founder Promoter of UNB (National News Agency). He was Contributing …
BIOGRAPHY Abeer Hoque was born in Nigeria to Bangladeshi parents and moved to the States when she was in high school. She is the recipient of the 2005 Tanenbaum Award in Nonfiction, and a 2006-7 Fulbright Scholarship. Her stories, poems, and photographs have been published in ZYZZYVA, Nerve.com, KQED’s Writers Block, Drunken Boat, 580 Split, …
BIOGRAPHY Feroz Ahmed-ud-din is a writer, translator and airliner; born in Dhaka in August, 1950. He did his MA and BA (Honours) in English Literature at the University of Dhaka and then studied MBA at IBA. Honorary Fellow in Writing at University of Iowa, he had won the All Pakistan College English Poetry Contest in …
BIOGRAPHY Rumana Siddique was born in Bangladesh but left it in her infancy to return at the age of eighteen. She spent most of her childhood in Tanzania in East Africa and Nigeria in West Africa and her early teens in England. She completed her Bachelor and Master of Arts in English from University of …
BIOGRAPHY K. Anis Ahmed was born in Dhaka and educated in St. Joseph High School and Notre Dame College. He completed higher studies at Brown, Washington and New York Universities in America, receiving a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from NYU. Ahmed’s first significant published piece, Forty Steps, appeared in the Minnesota Review and was nominated …
Life Time: 1950 BIOGRAPHY Kaiser Mohammed Hamidul Haq was born in 1950 in Dhaka. Haq, who fought as an officer in the war of liberation, is currently professor of English at Dhaka University. He is a poet, translator and essayist. He received his Ph.D. from Warwick University as a Commonwealth Scholar, and he has been …
BIOGRAPHY Rebecca Sultana was born in Kaduna, Nigeria and grew up in different places in Pakistan until she was 11. While teaching at Chittagong University, Rebecca left for the U.S. on a Fulbright fellowship for a Master’s in American literature. Soon, however, she was initiated into postcolonial and cultural studies. Perhaps reflecting on her own …
BIOGRAPHY Tahmima Anam was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh in 1975 and grew up in Paris, New York City, and Bangkok. She was trained as an anthropologist, earning a PhD from Harvard University. In 2005 she completed an MA in Creative Writing at Royal Holloway, London, and is the recipient of a Writing Fellowship from the …
