Dilruba Z. Ara
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Dilruba Z. Ara (born 20 November 1957) is a Swedish Bangladeshi writer,[1][2][3] novelist, artist, educator and translator.[4]
Background
Ara was born into a distinguished literary family in Bangladesh. Her father, Shahed Ali, was a Language Movement veteran, translator and Bangla Academy award-winning author of Gabriel's Wings.[5] Her mother, Professor Chemon Ara, now retired, is also an acknowledged author and Language Movement veteran. She has three brothers and two sisters.
Career
- First novel A List of Offences was published in 2006.[1][6]
- Second novel Blame was published in 2015.[2][7][8]
- Collection of stories Detached Belonging was published in 2016.[3][9]
- Translation work Selected Short Stories by Shahed Ali was published in 2006.[4][10]
- Translation work En Flod till hjärta was published in 2021 .[11]
Education
Bachelor of Education: Lund University, Sweden.
Alma Mater: Gothenburg University, Sweden.
Bibliography
Books
Short stories
Published in Chattahoochee Review, Drunken Boat, Asia Writes, Democratic World Magazine, Swedish Institute, The Daily Star, Shipwrights Review Vista and in anthology. Our Many Longings.
Personal life
Ara moved to Sweden in 1978 and has lived in the university town of Lund since 2007. Apart from writing and painting she works as a language teacher.Her son, Navid, now an architect, lives and works in Malmö. Her daughter, Tania,now a Civil Engineer, lives in Copenhagen. Ara travels to Dhaka frequently, where her mother Professor Chemon Ara still lives in their family home in Banani.[12] Her father Shahed Ali passed away in 2001.
References
- ^ ISBN 978-1477481875. Archived from the originalon 2019-04-07. Retrieved 2018-04-08.
- ^ OCLC 1001708582.
- ^ OCLC 967589139.
- ^ OCLC 607247307.
- ^ Haque, Junaidul (28 May 2016). "Ethos behind a war". The Daily Observer. Archived from the original on 21 November 2018. Retrieved 8 April 2018.
- ^ Grooms, Anthony (March 2008). "A Woman's View". Chattahoochee Review. 28 (2/3): 167.
- ^ Mortuza, Shamsad (8 February 2016). "Whose blame is it anyway?". The Daily Star. Retrieved 2018-04-11.
- ^ Haque, Junaidul (20 May 2016). "Blame: A 1971 novel". Dhaka Tribune. Retrieved 2018-04-11.
- ^ Holmberg, Claes-Göran (12 August 2013). "Portraying man's vulnerability". The Daily Star. Retrieved 2018-04-11.
- ^ "At a glance". The Daily Star. 3 November 2007. Retrieved 2018-04-11.
- ^ http://www.alhambra.se/bocker/Dilruba_Z_Ara__En_flod_till_hjarta.htm Sweden ISBN 978-91-8771-44-6 Retrieved 10th June 2023
- ^ https://www.thedailystar.net/supplements/amar-ekushey-2020/news/the-women-who-broke-the-barricades-1871062. The Daily Star. Bangladesh. Retrieved 10th June 23
External links
- Official website
- Interview with Dilruba Z. Ara at The Daily Observer, Bangladesh
- Published works at WorldCat Identities
- Princeton University Library Catalogue
- https://library.stanford.edu/all/?q=%22Blame%22
- Dilruba Z. Ara speaks at Independent University, Bangladesh
- Books by Dilruba Z. Ara at The University Press Limited
- Book review (La Lista de Ofensas) at Oceano Publishing House, Mexico
- Book review (La Lista de Ofensas) at La Librería de Javier, Madrid
- Bangladeshi Writers Abroad at Bangladesh Circle
- The Mosque-Yard Imam by Dilruba Z. Ara at Democratic World, India
- https://www.bokus.com/bok/9789187771446/en-flod-till-hjarta/
- http://www.alhambra.se/bocker/Dilruba_Z_Ara__En_flod_till_hjarta.htm
- https://www.dhakatribune.com/arts-letters/2022/02/10/a-nations-individual-and-collective-struggles-anthologised-in-our-many-longings-contemporary-short-fiction-from-bangladesh
- Book Review (En flod till hjärta) https://karavan.se/blogs/recenserat/tagged/dilruba-z-ara Sweden
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