Nahar Monica is a poet, short story writer and novelist. She was born and raised in the northern part of Bangladesh and has a sociology degree from the University of Dhaka and a master’s degree in science from the University of London. Her published books include Montho Kuup (2019 novel), Dokholer Dour (2019 short story collection), Bisharga Taan (2016 novel), PrishThaguli Neejer (2014 short story collection) and Chandpur e aamader borsha chhilo (2007 poetry […]
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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 […]
Saeed Jadid was born in Bangladesh and earned a bachelor’s degree in surgery and medicine from the University of Chittagong. He is the past editor of Journal of Health Sciences and Mrittika (a literary journal in Bengali) and has published a collection of poems, Nibedita Pongtimala, in Bengali. He is a researcher of human history and translator with special interest in the history of Africa. Recently, he translated Lawrence Hill’s The Book of Negroes into Bengali.
