Dilruba Z. Ara
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Born | Dhaka, Bangladesh | 20 November 1957
Occupation | Writer, translator, painter, educator |
Language | English, Bengali, Swedish |
Nationality | Swedish Bangladeshi |
Alma mater | Gothenburg University (Fil.Kand.) Lund University (B.Ed.) |
Notable works |
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Children | 2 |
Dilruba Z. Ara (born 20 November 1957) is a Swedish Bangladeshi writer,[1][2][3] novelist, artist, educator and translator.[4]
Background
[edit]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
[edit]- 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
[edit]Bachelor of Education: Lund University, Sweden.
Alma Mater: Gothenburg University, Sweden.
Bibliography
[edit]Books
[edit]Short stories
[edit]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
[edit]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
[edit]- ^ a b c Ara, Dilruba Z. (2006). A list of offences. Bangladesh: University Press Ltd. ISBN 978-1-4774-8187-5. Archived from the original on 2019-04-07. Retrieved 2018-04-08.
- ^ a b c Ara, Dilruba Z. (2015). Blame. Bangladesh: University Press Ltd. ISBN 978-9845062336. OCLC 1001708582.
- ^ a b c Ara, Dilruba Z. (2016). Detached Belonging. Bangladesh: University Press Ltd. ISBN 978-9845062435. OCLC 967589139.
- ^ a b Ali, Shahed; Ara, Dilruba Z. (2006). Selected short stories of Shahed Ali. Bangladesh: University Press Ltd. ISBN 978-9840517626. 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
[edit]- 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="Blame"
- 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