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…
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 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…
Bhajan Sarker, a Bengali author was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh. He studied in Bangladesh and Canada and obtained post-graduate degree in Civil Engineering. Although Bhajan started writing with poetry since childhood, he is now well-known as a fiction writer and essayist. Bhajan has five books to his credit: ‘Bivaktir Satkahon’ (essay), ‘Canvase Behular Jol’ (poetry), ‘Banshe Pravase’ (essay), ‘Red Indiander Sathe Bosobas’ (essay), and ‘Chandramukhi Janala’ (novel on the Bangladesh Liberation War and Naxalist Movement). Books…
Atoar Rahman was born in 1964. He took his post-graduation degree in English language and literature. Afterwards, he took journalism and later teaching as his profession. Mainly short stories and poems are the subjects of his interest. He writes regularly in various Bengali daily and weekly newspapers and online literary magazines from Bangladesh and Canada….
Atanu Das Gupta, born in Chattogram, Bangladesh, now lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia. A regular contributor to different Bengali weeklies and periodical, Atanu’s first story ‘Durgompother Ovijatrira’ (Refugees of the restless roads) was ppublished in 2016. His debut book ‘Golpe Solpe Kichukkhon’ was published in 2023 from Dhaka. Books by Atanu Das Gupta Golpesolpe Kichukkhon…
Alina Mita Howlader alias Alina Mita is a writer, reciter, speech artist, and cultural activist. Born and raised in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Alina is the second child of her parents Benedict Howlader and Rani Howlader. Completing her Master’s in English Literature, Alina has worked in a multinational company for a long. She has been living in…
Akhtar Hossain is a writer, play director, and columnist. His recent publication is a novel based on the true story of Bangladesh Liberation war hero Mr. Abu Sayeed Chowdhury. Akhtar Hossain has written and directed 13 plays. All of which were staged in Canada. In his childhood, Akhtar took part in Television and Radio programs….
Debanjana Mukherjee Bhowmik has always lived in a cloud of creativity, although her academic degrees are in Architecture and Computer Science Engineering. At the age of seventeen, she was selected nationally by the Poetry Society of India, Delhi, as one of the youth poets. Her volumes of poetry are “Canvas of Dreams”, “Primitive Poems of…
Subrata Kumar Das, a writer, curator, and organizer migrated from Bangladesh to Canada in 2013. A member of the Writers’ Union of Canada and the Literary Translators’ Association of Canada, Subrata has contributed enormously to creating a bridge between Canadian Bengali writers and the Canadian Mainstream writing community. A recipient of Nalanda Best Canadian Bengali…