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Janice Lynn Mather

Janice Lynn Mather is a Bahamian writer with an MFA from the University of British Columbia. Her first novel, Learning to Breathe, was a Governor General’s Literary Award finalist, a BC Book Prize finalist, shortlisted for the 2019 CCBC Amy Mathers Teen Book Award, a YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults selection, an Amelia Bloomer’s Top Ten Recommended Feminist Books for Young Readers pick, and a Junior Library Guild selection. Facing the Sun is her second novel for young adults. Janice Lynn lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, with her family and a growing collection of dust bunnies.

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Sonali Deraniyagala

Sonali Deraniyagala is a Sri Lankan memoirist and economist. Born and raised in Colombo, Sri Lanka, she studied economics at Oxford and Cambridge. She married economist Stephen Lissenburgh.

While on vacation at Sri Lanka's Yala National Park in December 2004, she lost her two sons, her husband, and her parents in the Indian Ocean tsunami. The tsunami carried her two miles inland and she was able to survive by clinging to a tree branch.

Deraniyagala later relocated to New York where she became a visiting research scholar at Columbia University. Her 2013 memoir, Wave, recounts her experiences in the tsunami and the progression of her grief in the ensuing years. It was shortlisted for the 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award (

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Sujatha Gidla

Sujatha Gidla is an Indian-American author. Gidla is known for her book Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India.

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Khushwant Singh

Khushwant Singh, (Punjabi: ਖ਼ੁਸ਼ਵੰਤ ਸਿੰਘ, Hindi: खुशवंत सिंह) born on 2 February 1915 in Hadali, Undivided India, (now a part of Pakistan), was a prominent Indian novelist and journalist. Singh's weekly column, "With Malice towards One and All", carried by several Indian newspapers, was among the most widely-read columns in the country.

An important post-colonial novelist writing in English, Singh is best known for his trenchant secularism, his humor, and an abiding love of poetry. His comparisons of social and behavioral characteristics of Westerners and Indians are laced with acid wit.

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Cherie Jones

Cherie Jones is an award-winning author from Barbados. Her debut novel HOW THE ONE-ARMED SISTER SWEEPS HER HOUSE has been critically acclaimed by several publications including the The New York Times, Los Angeles Times and Washington Post and is Good Morning America's Bookclub pick for February, 2021. Cherie's past publication credits include PANK, The Feminist Wire and Eclectica. She is a past fellowship awardee of the Vermont Studio Centre and a recipient of the Archie Markham Award and A.M. Heath Prize from Sheffield Hallam University (UK).

Cherie currently lives in Barbados with her children where, in addition to her writing, she works as a lawyer and indulges her passion for chocolate.

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Tehmina Durrani

Tehmina Durrani (Urdu: تہمینہ درانی‎; born 18 February 1953) is the daughter of a former Governor of State Bank of Pakistan and Managing Director of Pakistan International Airlines, S.U. Durrani and a granddaughter of Nawab Sir Liaqat Hayat Khan, prime minister of Patiala state for eleven years. He was the elder brother of former Punjab Premier Sir Sikandar Hayat Khan. Her first book, My Feudal Lord, caused ripples in Pakistan's male-dominated society by describing her abusive and traumatic marriage to Ghulam Mustafa Khar, then Chief Minister and later Governor of Punjab and her experience of a feudal society. She is currently involved in the emancipation of women in Pakistan.

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Paulo Coelho

The Brazilian author PAULO COELHO was born in 1947 in the city of Rio de Janeiro. Before dedicating his life completely to literature, he worked as theatre director and actor, lyricist and journalist. In 1986, PAULO COELHO did the pilgrimage to Saint James of Compostella, an experience later to be documented in his book The Pilgrimage. In the following year, COELHO published The Alchemist. Slow initial sales convinced his first publisher to drop the novel, but it went on to become one of the best selling Brazilian books of all time. Other titles include Brida (1990), The Valkyries (1992), By the river Piedra I sat Down and Wept (1994), the collection of his best columns published in the Brazilian newspaper Folha de São Paulo entitle Maktub

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Rabindranath Tagore

Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913 "because of his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse, by which, with consummate skill, he has made his poetic thought, expressed in his own English words, a part of the literature of the West."

Tagore modernised Bengali art by spurning rigid classical forms and resisting linguistic strictures. His novels, stories, songs, dance-dramas, and essays spoke to topics political and personal. Gitanjali (Song Offerings), Gora (Fair-Faced), and Ghare-Baire (The Home and the World) are his best-known works, and his verse, short stories, and novels were acclaimed—or panned—for their lyricism, colloquialism, naturalism, and unnatural contemplation. His compositions were chosen by two nations as nat

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Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay

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Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay (also spelt Saratchandra) (Bengali: শরৎচন্দ্র চট্টোপাধ্যায়) was a legendary Bengali novelist from India. He was one of the most popular Bengali novelists of the early 20th century.

His childhood and youth were spent in dire poverty as his father, Motilal Chattopadhyay, was an idler and dreamer and gave little security to his five children. Saratchandra received very little formal education but inherited something valuable from his father—his imagination and love of literature.

He started writing in his early teens and two stories written then have survived—‘Korel’ and ‘Kashinath’. Sara

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Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay

This author has secondary bangla profile-বিভূতিভূষণ বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়.

Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay (Bangla: বিভূতিভূষণ বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়) was an Indian Bangali author and one of the leading writers of modern Bangla literature. His best known work is the autobiographical novel, Pather Panchali: Song of the Road which was later adapted (along with Aparajito, the sequel) into the Apu Trilogy films, directed by Satyajit Ray.

The 1951 Rabindra Puraskar, the most prestigious literary award in the West Bengal state of India, was posthumously awarded to Bibhutibhushan for his novel ইছামতী.

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Mahmudul Haque

Mahmudul Haque (Bangla: মাহমুদুল হক) was a contemporary novelist in Bangla literature. He was born in Barasat in West Bengal. His family moved to Dhaka after the partition in 1947. His novels deal with this pain of leaving one's home.

Mahmud gave up writing in 1982 after a number of acclaimed novels. Affectionately known as Botu Bhai and always seen as a lively figure in social gatherings, the rest of the time he was said to lead a solitary life.

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Syed Shamsul Haque

Syed Shamsul Haque (Bangla: সৈয়দ শামসুল হক) was a Bangladeshi poet and writer. Haq lived alternately in Dhaka and London. He wrote poetry, fiction, plays - mostly in verse and essays. He, the youngest writer to be honored with Bangla Academy Award, achieved it at the age of 29. He was honored with Ekushey Podok in 1984.

(সব্যসাচী লেখক সৈয়দ শামসুল হক ১৯৩৫ সালের ২৭ ডিসেম্বর কুড়িগ্রামে জন্মেছিলেন। বর্ণাঢ্য লেখকজীবনের অধিকারী সৈয়দ হক। কবিতা, ছোটগল্প, উপন্যাস, কাব্যনাট্য, চলচ্চিত্রের চিত্রনাট্য, চলচ্চিত্রের গান – যা লিখেছেন সবকিছুতেই পেয়েছেন জনপ্রিয়তা, সাফল্য।

মাত্র ২৯ বছর বয়সে ১৯৬৪ সালে বাংলা একাডেমি পুরস্কার পান সৈয়দ হক। এখন পর্যন্ত বাংলা একাডেমি পুরস্কার পাওয়া সর্বকনিষ্ঠ লেখক তিনি।

সৈয়দ হকের লেখালেখির শুরু তাঁর শৈশবেই। ম্যাট্রিক পরীক্ষার আগে লি

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Ahmed Sofa

Ahmed Sofa (Bangla: আহমদ ছফা) was a well-known Bangladeshi philosopher, poet, novelist, writer, critic, translator. Sofa was renowned for his intellectual righteousness as well as his holistic approach to the understanding of social dynamics and international politics. His career as a writer began in the 1960s. He never married. On 28 July 2001, Ahmed Sofa died in a hospital in Dhaka. He was buried in Martyred Intellectuals' Graveyard.

Sofa helped establishing Bangladesh Lekhak Shibir (Bangladesh Writers' Camp) in 1970 to organize liberal writers in order to further the cause of the progressive movement.

Ahmed Sofa's outspoken personality and bold self-expression brought him into the limelight. He was never seen hankering after fame in a tri

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Humayun Ahmed

Humayun Ahmed (Bengali: হুমায়ূন আহমেদ; 13 November 1948 – 19 July 2012) was a Bangladeshi author, dramatist, screenwriter, playwright and filmmaker. He was the most famous and popular author, dramatist and filmmaker ever to grace the cultural world of Bangladesh since its independence in 1971. Dawn referred to him as the cultural legend of Bangladesh. Humayun started his journey to reach fame with the publication of his novel Nondito Noroke (In Blissful Hell) in 1972, which remains one of his most famous works. He wrote over 250 fiction and non-fiction books, all of which were bestsellers in Bangladesh, most of them were number one bestsellers of their respective years by a wide margin. In recognition to the works of Humayun, Times of Indi

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Jasim Uddin

Jasimuddin (Bangla: জসীম উদদীন; full name: Jasimuddin Mollah) was a Bengali poet, songwriter, prose writer, folklore collector and radio personality. He is commonly known in Bangladesh as Polli Kobi (The Rural Poet), for his faithful rendition of Bengali folklore in his works.

He obtained his BA degree in Bengali from the University of Calcutta in 1929 and his MA in 1931. From 1931 to 1937, Jasimuddin worked with Dinesh Chandra Sen as a collector of folk literature. Jasimuddin is one of the compilers of Purbo-Bongo Gitika (Ballads of East Bengal). He collected more than 10,000 folk songs, some of which has been included in his song compilations Jari Gaan and Murshida Gaan. He also wrote voluminously on the interpretation and philosophy of Be

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Humayun Azad

Humayun Azad (Bangla: হুমায়ূন আজাদ) was a Bangladeshi author and scholar. He earned BA degree in Bengali language and literature from University of Dhaka. He obtained his PhD in linguistics from the University of Edinburgh in 1976. He later served as a faculty member of the department of Bengali language and literature at the University of Dhaka. His early career produced works on Bengali linguistics, notably syntax. He was regarded as a leading linguist of the Bangla language.

Towards the end of 1980s, he started to write newspaper column focusing on contemporary socio-political issues. Through his writings of 1990s, he established himself as a freethinker and appeared to be an agnostic. In his works, he openly criticized religious extremi

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Javed Rasin

Javed Rasin (Bengali: জাবেদ রাসিন) is a Bangladeshi poet & fiction writer. He was born in Mymensingh but has raised in Dhaka from childhood. Javed completed his graduation & post-graduation in law from the University of Dhaka. He likes the charm of prosody and playing with words which fits into poetry. Shunno Pother Opekkhay (শূন্য পথের অপেক্ষায়) was his maiden published poetry.

Also the world of fiction, especially thriller & horror fiction fascinated him and he started writing in this genre. His first published thriller fiction novel was Blackgate (ব্ল্যাকগেট), co-authored with Tarim Fuad. His other works are horror novel Tomisra (তমিস্রা) & conspiracy novel Circle (সার্কেল). He continued to produce poetry and to work on fiction novels.

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Soumitra Biswas

সৌমিত্র বিশ্বাস-এর জন্ম ১৯৬৫ কলকাতায়। শিক্ষা নিউ আলিপুর মাল্টিপারপাস স্কুলে। পরে সেন্ট জেভিয়ার্স কলেজের অর্থনীতির ছাত্র। অর্থনীতিতে স্নাতকোত্তর পাঠ শেষে রাজ্য সরকারের আধিকারিক হিসেবে কর্মজীবন শুরু করেন। বাংলার অধ্যাপিকা মৈত্রেয়ী সরকারের অনুপ্রেরণায় আরও মনোযোগী হয়ে ওঠেন সাহিত্যে। দেশ পত্রিকা আয়োজিত রহস্য গল্প প্রতিযোগিতায় প্রথম স্থান লাভ করে তাঁর ‘মুখোশ’ গল্পটি। দ্বিতীয় গল্প ‘নাস্তিক’ও প্রশংসিত। প্রথম উপন্যাস ‘হেরুক’। আবাল্য সত্য সাইবাবার শিক্ষায় অনুপ্রাণিত মানুষটি ভালবাসেন আড়ম্বরহীন, সৎ জীবনযাপন আর সমাজসেবা। বই ও বন্ধুদের সঙ্গে মননশীল আড্ডায় সমান উৎসাহী।

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Μαρία Ιορδανίδου

Maria Iordanidou
Γεννήθηκε στην Κωνσταντινούπολη το 1897 και έζησε τα παιδικά της χρόνια στον Πειραιά και το Βατούμ της Ρωσίας. Φοίτησε σε ρωσικό γυμνάσιο, στη Σταυρούπολη, όπου τη βρήκε η Οκτωβριανή Επανάσταση. Το 1919 γύρισε στην Κωνσταντινούπολη και λίγο αργότερα πήγε στην Αλεξάνδρεια, όπου παντρεύτηκε τον Ιορδάνη Ιορδανίδη. Το 1923 επέστρεψαν μαζί στην Αθήνα, αλλά σύντομα ο Ιορδανίδης έφυγε.

Εξαιτίας των συνθηκών της ζωής της, η Ιορδανίδου απέκτησε μεγάλη γλωσσομάθεια και εργάστηκε ως ιδιωτική υπάλληλος. Έγινε γνωστή στο λογοτεχνικό χώρο με το έργο Λωξάντρα, που έγραψε σε ηλικία 65 χρονών, το 1962, και γνώρισε πολλές επανεκδόσεις. Η Λωξάντρα περιγράφει με μεγάλη ζωντάνια και χιούμορ τα έθιμα και τη ζωή των Ελλήνων της Πόλης και βασίζεται

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M.J. Babu

M.J. Babu is an acclaimed author born and raised in Dhaka. M.J. made a remarkable entry into the literary world with his debut book, Dimentiya, published in 2020. This gripping novel quickly became a best-seller in the Bengali language, establishing him as a prominent figure in contemporary Bengali literature.

Following the success of his debut, M.J. continued to captivate readers with his unique storytelling and thought-provoking themes. His book Pinball, published in 2022 from Kolkata, India, received critical acclaim and further solidified his reputation as a versatile and talented writer.

M.J. has authored seven books in Bengali, including the renowned Anarchist Series with titles Dimentiya, Absentiya, and Insentiya. Other notable works i

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Motiur Rahman Rentu

মতিয়ুর রহমান রেন্টু বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধের একজন অংশগ্রহণকারী মুক্তিযোদ্ধা এবং বিতর্কিত লেখক। তিনি ১৯৭১ সালের মহান মুক্তিযুদ্ধে অকুতোভয়ে লড়াই করেছেন এবং দেশের স্বাধীনতার জন্য জীবন বাজি রেখেছেন। তাঁর মুক্তিযোদ্ধা হিসেবে অবদান স্বীকৃত, যা প্রমাণিত হয় সরকারি নথিপত্রে তাঁর নাম অন্তর্ভুক্তি এবং ভারত সরকারের দেওয়া বিরল সনদের মাধ্যমে।

রেন্টু গোপালগঞ্জের মুকসুদপুরের আব্দুল বারীর পুত্র ছিলেন। তিনি আনুমানিক ১৯৫৪ সালে জন্মগ্রহণ করেছিলেন। তিনি ১৯৮১ থেকে ১৯৯৭ সাল পর্যন্ত আওয়ামী লীগ সভানেত্রী শেখ হাসিনার সাথে ঘনিষ্ঠ কর্মসম্পর্ক বজায় রেখেছিলেন এবং তাঁর সহকারী হিসেবে কাজ করেছিলেন।

তাঁর সবচেয়ে বিখ্যাত ও বিতর্কিত রচনা "আমার ফাঁসি চাই", যা প্রথম ১৯৯৯ সালের মার্চ মাসে প্রকাশিত হয়। এই বইয়ের মাধ্যমে তিনি তৎকালীন আওয়ামী লীগ সরকার ও রাজনৈতিক নেতৃত্বে

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Dibyendu Palit

দিব্যেন্দু পালিত-এর জন্ম ৫ মার্চ ১৯৩৯ (২১ ফাল্গুন, ১৩৪৫), ভাগলপুরে। শিক্ষা : তুলনামূলক সাহিত্যে এম-এ (১৯৬১)। কর্মজীবনের শুরু ১৯৬১-তে, হিন্দুস্থান স্ট্যান্ডার্ডে সাংবাদিক হিসাবে। ১৯৬৫-তে যোগ দেন বিপণন ও বিজ্ঞাপন সংক্রান্ত পেশায়। এই সূত্রে দীর্ঘকাল যুক্ত ছিলেন ক্লারিয়ন-ম্যাকান, আনন্দবাজার ও দ্য স্টেট্‌স্‌ম্যান-এ। বর্তমানে সাংবাদিক, আনন্দবাজার পত্রিকার সম্পাদকীয় বিভাগের সঙ্গে যুক্ত। উপন্যাস, গল্প, প্রবন্ধ, কবিতা-সব ক্ষেত্রেই স্বচ্ছন্দ। লিখছেন ১৯৫৫ থেকে। আনন্দ ও রামকুমার ভূয়ালকা-সহ আরও কয়েকটি সাহিত্য পুরস্কারে সম্মানিত। ইংরাজি ও বিভিন্ন ভারতীয় ভাষায় অনূদিত হয়েছে বহু রচনা। বাংলা ও হিন্দীতে চলচ্চিত্রায়িত হয়েছে কয়েকটি কাহিনী। ‘গৃহযুদ্ধ’ ছবির সুবাদে শ্রেষ্ঠ চলচ্চিত্রকাহিনীর জন্য পেয়েছেন বি-এফ-জে-এ এবং অন্যান্য পুরস্কার।

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Surendra Mohanty

Surendra Mohanty born in Orissa was an award-winning author who wrote in Oriya.[1] He was the recipient of the Orissa Sahitya Academy Award for his novel Nilashaila.

He was the President of Orissa Sahitya Academy from the year 1981 to 1987. He was also the first editor, and later chief editor for the newspaper The Sambad.[2] He is a writer of short stories, novels, travelogues, criticism and biographies. He wrote around 50 books belonging to different genres. His well known books are Mahanagarira Ratri (The Night of the Metropolis), Maralara Mrutyu (The Death of a Swan), Andha Diganta (The Dark Horizon), and Mahanirvana (The Final Departure). Yadubamsa O Anyaanya Galpa (The Yadubamsa and other stories), Rajadhani O Anyaanya Galpa (The Capita

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Ali Eteraz

ALI ETERAZ is the author of the novel NATIVE BELIEVER (Akashic, 2016), a 2016 Summer Reading List Selection by O: The Oprah Magazine. He is the author of the coming-of-age memoir CHILDREN OF DUST (HarperCollins) and the surrealist short story collection FALSIPEDIES & FIBSIENNES (Guernica Editions).

Eteraz’s short fiction has appeared in the Chicago Quarterly Review, storySouth, and Crossborder, and his nonfiction has been highlighted by NPR, the New York Times, and the Guardian. Recently, Eteraz received the 3 Quarks Daily Arts & Literature Prize judged by Mohsin Hamid, and served as a consultant to the artist Jenny Holzer on a permanent art installation in Qatar.

Eteraz has lived in the Dominican Republic, Pakistan, the Persian Gulf, and A

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Sarah A. Al Shafei

Sarah Al Shafai comes from an island in the Middle East known as the Kingdom of Bahrain. She studied in Boston and Miami and graduated with a BA in Liberal Arts. She is a constant traveller and enjoys writing short stories and poetry at the same time. She is a monthly correspondent in a local English women's magazine where she writes about real life stories in the Arab world. Yummah is her first novel. She is a twenty-four-year-old housewife and currently lives with her husband, Mohammed, and her two daughters, Noor and Dana, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

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