Mojaffor Hossain is a notable fiction writer of contemporary Bangla literature. His signature style is using native realities as his settings, and giving them magic-realistic or surrealistic colours. The story is translated from the Bengali by Shamita Das Dasgupta.
Dreams and nightmares take turns in every sleep cycle. They even invade the hours awake. There shall no longer be a day without learning the shape of separation, without looking at broken pieces of heart, without longing for acceptance from foreign soils, skins and songs.The Antonym, sought out literary expressions—tales and artefacts built in that sleeplessness and plight.
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Ülkü Tamer (1937- 2018) was a Turkish poet, journalist, actor and translator. He is one of the leading representatives of the Second New poetry movement that emerged in the 1950s.
Brenda Porster writes both in English and Italian. Her poems appeared in numerous literary magazines, poetry anthologies and online literary sites in Italy and abroad, and have been translated into several languages.
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