This essay is based on the panel discussion, 'Does Anyone Write About Love Anymore?', organised by the International Writing Program (IWP), University of Iowa, on October 14. Mashiul Alam participated in the panel as one of the 2022 Fall Writers-in-Residence.
Shabnam Nadiya was selected for The Ice Machine, her translation from the Bangla of Bangladeshi short story writer and novelist Wasi Ahmed’s Borofkol. The six winning books from the shortlist will receive publishing guidance from English PEN, and be matched up with UK publishers.
Journalist and author Mashiul Alam has been selected as a resident of the 2022 Iowa International Writing Program (IWP), among the world’s most prestigious creative writing residencies.
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A purported quote from an English-language book by Abu Sadat Mohammad Sayem, a former president of Bangladesh, has been shared hundreds of times in Bengali-language Facebook posts that claim it shows him describing the moment his successor, the late military dictator Ziaur Rahman, forced him to resign. Although the book does contain passages about Rahman, who ruled Bangladesh