Bangladeshi writer

EVENT REPORT / When dreams refuse to stay silent

The launch brought together literature, art, and reflection, marking the arrival of Breaking Dreams as a work that speaks both to individual lives and to the wider social realities of Bangladesh.

NEWS REPORT / HarperCollins India publishes English edition of Mohammad Nazimuddin’s acclaimed thriller

Nazimuddin is widely known in Bangladesh for his fast-paced crime and psychological novels

BOOK REVIEW: FICTION / A kaleidoscopic collection of stories by an outsider

Storytelling is not easy, especially when a few words portray a character with depth and just enough strokes to etch the social milieu for certain classes and creeds and the outcomes of political ideologies in post-independent Bangladesh.

Faria Basher named Asia Regional Winner of Commonwealth Short Story Prize

She is the first writer of Bangladeshi origin to win the regional prize

NEWS / Bangladeshi writer Faria Basher shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2025

“An Eye and a Leg” has been described as "a darkly humorous and surreal take on the trope of the ‘expiring’ South Asian woman"

BOI MELA 2025 / Finding Obayed Haque: A contemporary writer who lives in his words

If you pick up an Obayed Haque novel, you won’t find an author’s photo, a detailed biography, or even a note about his life.

NEWS REPORT / In memory of Ghulam Murshid: Researcher, author, journalist

Murshid’s passing marks the end of an era in literature

Poetry / The howling pack of dogs

This poem has been translated by the author from Zahir Raihan’s poem, ‘Kotogulo Kukurer Artonad’ on account of the novelist, writer and filmmaker’s birth anniversary.

REVIEW / The Potenga harlots’ tale

In Koshobi, Jaladas paints the damp and dejected walls of Strandroad, Shahebpara, which is a local red-light district more than 300 years old.

September 9, 2025
September 9, 2025

When dreams refuse to stay silent

The launch brought together literature, art, and reflection, marking the arrival of Breaking Dreams as a work that speaks both to individual lives and to the wider social realities of Bangladesh.

July 8, 2025
July 8, 2025

HarperCollins India publishes English edition of Mohammad Nazimuddin’s acclaimed thriller

Nazimuddin is widely known in Bangladesh for his fast-paced crime and psychological novels

May 29, 2025
May 29, 2025

A kaleidoscopic collection of stories by an outsider

Storytelling is not easy, especially when a few words portray a character with depth and just enough strokes to etch the social milieu for certain classes and creeds and the outcomes of political ideologies in post-independent Bangladesh.

May 14, 2025
May 14, 2025

Faria Basher named Asia Regional Winner of Commonwealth Short Story Prize

She is the first writer of Bangladeshi origin to win the regional prize

April 15, 2025
April 15, 2025

Bangladeshi writer Faria Basher shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2025

“An Eye and a Leg” has been described as "a darkly humorous and surreal take on the trope of the ‘expiring’ South Asian woman"

February 22, 2025
February 22, 2025

Finding Obayed Haque: A contemporary writer who lives in his words

If you pick up an Obayed Haque novel, you won’t find an author’s photo, a detailed biography, or even a note about his life.

August 22, 2024
August 22, 2024

In memory of Ghulam Murshid: Researcher, author, journalist

Murshid’s passing marks the end of an era in literature

August 19, 2023
August 19, 2023

The howling pack of dogs

This poem has been translated by the author from Zahir Raihan’s poem, ‘Kotogulo Kukurer Artonad’ on account of the novelist, writer and filmmaker’s birth anniversary.

July 29, 2023
July 29, 2023

The Potenga harlots’ tale

In Koshobi, Jaladas paints the damp and dejected walls of Strandroad, Shahebpara, which is a local red-light district more than 300 years old.

July 15, 2023
July 15, 2023

‘Bangladesh has failed to foster an environment that encourages creative and intellectual freedom’: Badruddin Umar

How writers and their consciousness evolve in a country is largely dependent on that society’s intellectual development, their freedom of expression, and if their intellectual development is encouraged or discouraged.