Romel Rahman is a poet, writer and playwright from Khulna, Bangladesh.The story is translated from the Bengali by Chirayata Chakrabarty.
Dilemma on the Subject of the Ancient Prodigal Vulture – Romel Rahman
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Romel Rahman is a poet, writer and playwright from Khulna, Bangladesh.The story is translated from the Bengali by Chirayata Chakrabarty.
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.
Giuseppe Pensabene Perez was born in Italy in 1984, is a Pisces, a linguist, a tobacco smoker and polyglot. A voracious, omnivorous reader. His favorite authors are Steven King and Roberto Bolaño.
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.
Erri De Luca, born in Naples in 1950, has published more than 60 books, numerous collections of short stories and poems, many of which translated in more than 30 languages.
Ansar Uddin is from West Bengal, India. His connection with farming and farm labor runs deep. He has five collection of short stories and three novels to his name thus far. Translated from the Bengali by Bishnupriya Chowdhuri.
Prativa Sarkar is mostly known for her short stories and political essays. She has a collection of short stories based on subaltern crises – “Farishta O Meyera.”
Shyamal Kumar Pramanik writes on social and political values, and engages with Dalit literary texts and forms of movement in his works. His writing glitters with pain, angst, and impactful social commentary.