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The translated stories in this volume come from the pen of one of the outstanding short story writers in Bangladesh today. Shahaduz Zaman's content, style and form do not follow a set or conventional pattern. He combines the narrative style of folk tales with the most intricate and experimental elements of modern-day storytelling, to create his own oeuvre. Prose, poetry, fantasy and reality break their own boundaries and blend in his work. He has been termed the writer to look out for, by veterans such as Syed Shamsul Haq, for his craftsmanship and untiring efforts in reviving the moribund stream of short story writing in Bengali. His art of harnessing the timeless spirit of Bengal and the spirit of the times makes him a writer one has to read with one's heart as well as one's mind. He also published non-fiction books on films, travelogues, collection of interviews and essays on issues related to art and culture.
Shahaduz Zaman
Shahaduz Zaman is a medical doctor, medical anthropologist and literary writer. He obtained a Ph.D. in sciences at the University of Amsterdam and now teaches at the James P. Grant School of Public Health at BRAC University in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Sonia Amin
Sonia Amin teaches history at the University of Dhaka and specializes in the cultural/gender history of Bengal in the 19th and 20th centuries. She studied history at the University of Dhaka and Cambridge, and Sociology in the USA. Her monograph The World of Muslim Women in Colonial Bengal was published by E J Brill (Leiden) in 1996 and awarded a gold medal by the Asiatic Society of Bangladesh the following year. Dr. Amin has been a post-doctoral fellow at London University (SOAS), Cornell and the ISS, (The Hague). She has been translating prose and poetry from Bengali to English for over two decades and occasionally writes fiction and travel pieces.
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