Hassan Gorkey, born in Bangladesh, is currently living in British Columbia. Hasan writes articles and columns for prominent newspapers named ‘Dainik Prothom Alo’, ‘Dainik Ittefaq’, ‘Kathmandu Post’, ‘The South Asian Journal’, ‘Bangla Kagoj’, and ‘The Weekly Peninsula’. He has authored Roddurre Samuddurre and Factors Influencing the Choice of Newspaper Readers — a collection of short stories and…
Hosne Ara Jamee, born in 1964 in Bangladesh, is a social worker by profession, and a writer by passion. She is well-versed in different literary genres e.g. poetry, short stories, and children’s literature. Jamee started writing in school magazines. She continued her writing along with other cultural activities beside pursuing her engineering profession. She worked for an…
Hasan Zaman Khan, born in 1973, grew up in Dhaka. Completing his HSC, he got admitted to the Statistics Department of Dhaka University. But the restless mind did not last long there. Next year, he went to Khulna University of Engineering and Technology (KUET) to study Civil engineering. Started writing with rhymes in childhood. Then…
Hasan Zahid is a short story writer of the eighties. Alongside short stories, he also writes novels, and some of his novels and short stories were published in the form of books in different Ekushey Boi Mela during the past one and half decades. Zahid is a prolific article writer both in Bengali and English….
Hasan Mahmud, a former active student leader in Dhaka College and Dhaka University, Bangladesh, is a reciter, playwright, actor, lyricist, composer, presenter, and researcher. He has authored five books, numerous articles, interviews and eight plays and short films in English and Bengali. Some of his movies have been subtitled in Turkish, Malay and Arabic and…
Golam Dastagir earned his PhD in Philosophy from the University of Hull, England. He currently teaches Global Citizenship and Philosophy at Centennial College, Toronto. He extensively writes on intercultural philosophy, comparative religions, sufism, ethics, Indian and Western philosophy. Three of his my books are catalogued at the library of the University of Toronto. Over the…
DOYALI ISLAM was a Griffin Poetry Prize finalist, Trillium Book Award for Poetry finalist, and Pat Lowther Memorial Award finalist for her second poetry book, HEFT (M&S, 2019). Her first poetry book was YUSUF AND THE LOTUS FLOWER (BuschekBooks, 2011). Doyali is the niece of Bangladeshi filmmaker Syed Salahuddin Zaki, and the granddaughter of Bangladeshi…
“Laid out against the horizontal landscape of the page, from the very beginning these poems demand from the reader a reorientation, and set out a goal to teach us how to read differently — not only the poems but also the world. What is beautiful and successful here is the way Doyali Islam takes small moments and gives to them an incredible, sometimes aching, heft..
Bidyot Bhowmik was born in Brahmanbaria of Bangladesh on 23rd January 1952. After obtaining an M.A. in English from the University of Chittagong Bidyot started his career as a Lecturer. He was recruited as Master-1 by the Public Service Commission, Sokoto State of Nigeria in 1982 and worked there from 1983 to 1987. He came…
Bhaswati Ghosh’s Victory Colony, 1950, is a portrait of resilience and a testament to humanity. The novel set in eastern India in the aftermath of the partition is essentially the story of refugees. But it is also much more than that. It is a tale of finding home, warmth and love in the most adverse of conditions. Bereft of the home they left behind…