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Fakrul Alam is Director, Sheikh Mujib Research Institute for Peace and Liberty, University of Dhaka and Supernumerary Professor of its Department of English. He received the Bangla Academy Puroshkar (Literature Award) for Translation in 2013. His publications include Bharati Mukherjee (Boston, Twayne Publishers, 1995); Jibanananda Das: Selected Poems (UPL, 1999); ...
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Fakrul Alam is Director, Sheikh Mujib Research Institute for Peace and Liberty, University of Dhaka and Supernumerary Professor of its Department of English. He received the Bangla Academy Puroshkar (Literature Award) for Translation in 2013. His publications include Bharati Mukherjee (Boston, Twayne Publishers, 1995); Jibanananda Das: Selected Poems (UPL, 1999); South Asian Writers in English (Detroit: Thomson Gale, 2006); Imperial Entanglements and Literature in English (writer’s ink: Dhaka, 2007); and The Essential Tagore (Harvard UP, 2011; with Radha Chakravarty). Other works include translations of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s Unfinished Memoirs (Dhaka: UPL, New Delhi: Penguin Books, 2012), Prison Diaries (Dhaka: Bangla Academy, 2016), and New China: 1972 (Dhaka: Bangla Academy, 2021). He has also published Ocean of Sorrow, the translation of the late nineteenth century Bengali epic narrative, Bishad Sindhu (Dhaka: Bangla Academy, 2017). Among his most recent publications are the collection of essays Once More into the Past, (Dhaka: Daily Star Books, 2020) and Reading Literature in English and English Studies in Bangladesh: Postcolonial Perspectives (Dhaka: writers.ink: 2021). Forthcoming works include a selection of translations of Rabindranath’s song-lyrics from Tagore’s Gitabitan.
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