World in Other Words: Bengali Stories in Canada

Subrata Kumar Das, Rummana Chowdhury and Bhaswati Ghosh

World in Other Words: Bengali Stories in Canada

Subrata Kumar Das, Rummana Chowdhury and Bhaswati Ghosh

12:00pm

Saturday, October 1, 2022

Stage in the Park, October 1 at 12pm ET.

Meet storytellers from unique communities around the world and across the local neighbourhoods of Toronto in the World in Other Words. With a population of more than 100,000 Bengalis from Bangladesh, and a large Bengali diaspora from India, the language was one of the few that grew in usage by forty percent in Canada, according to the 2011 census. Three members of the Bengali writing community in Canada, including Bhaswati Ghosh and Rummana Chowdhury  will be sharing their experiences creating, sharing and translating stories. This panel will be moderated by Subrata Kumar Das.

This is a free outdoor event. Find the venue on the #FestofAuthors22 map here.

Stage in the Park, October 1 at 12pm ET.

Meet storytellers from unique communities around the world and across the local neighbourhoods of Toronto in the World in Other Words. With a population of more than 100,000 Bengalis from Bangladesh, and a large Bengali diaspora from India, the language was one of the few that grew in usage by forty percent in Canada, according to the 2011 census. Three members of the Bengali writing community in Canada, including Bhaswati Ghosh and Rummana Chowdhury  will be sharing their experiences creating, sharing and translating stories. This panel will be moderated by Subrata Kumar Das.

This is a free outdoor event. Find the venue on the #FestofAuthors22 map here.

Featured Authors

Subrata Kumar Das
Subrata Kumar Das, an immigrant in Canada since 2013, is an author and curator. A member of the Writers’ Union of Canada and Literary Translators Association of Canada, Subrata has 29 books to his credit. Subrata’s Bengali book on CanLit has been hugely acclaimed by the Bengali literature-lovers living in Canada and Bangladesh. The initiator of Bangladeshi Novels (bdnovels.org), the first website on Bengali literature in 2003, Subrata is the recipient of Nalanda Best Canadian Bengali Author Award at Canadian South Asian Literary Festival 2023 and Gayatri GaMarsh Memorial Award in 2018. He was shortlisted as Best Canadian Immigrant Award in 2021.

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Rummana Chowdhury
Rummana Chowdhury is a poet, activist and cultural personality and is the author of 50 books in both Bengali and English, comprising of poetry, short stories, columns, essays and novels. Rummana has received multiple literary awards from Bangladesh, India, Europe and North America on Diaspora literature and translation works. She has won the 2022 IPPY Award (Independent Publishers Book Award), Bronze Medal for Multicultural Fiction and also one of five finalists for the Independent Book Award, June of 2022, both from the US, for her book Dusk in the Frog Pond and Other Stories by Inanna Publications of Toronto, Canada.

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Bhaswati Ghosh
Bhaswati Ghosh writes and translates fiction, non-fiction and poetry. Her first book of fiction is Victory Colony, 1950. Her first work of translation from Bengali into English is My Days with Ramkinkar Baij, for which she received the Charles Wallace (India) Trust Fellowship at the British Centre for Literary Translation in the University of East Anglia. Bhaswati’s writing has appeared in several literary journals. Bhaswati lives in Ontario, Canada and is currently working on a nonfiction book on New Delhi, India. Visit her at www.bhaswatighosh.com.

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12:00pm

Saturday, October 1

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