Fakrul alam biography examples

Short Bio   FAKRUL ALAM is an academic, a literary critic, essayist and editor as well as a translator from Bengali. He is Professor of English at the University of Dhaka.

Fakrul alam biography examples

He has been a Fulbright Scholar and a Visiting Associate Professor at Clemson University, USA, and has also been Visiting Associate Professor at India’s Jadavpur University and Visiting Professor at Visva-Bharati. He was a member of the jury of the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize for 2003 (Eurasia region) and was an adjudicator for the DSC South Asian Prize for Literature in 2011.

He received the SAARC Literature Award 2012 given at the SAARC Literature Festival of 2012 held at Lucknow India on 18 March 2012. He was awarded the Bangla Academy Puroshkar (Literature Award) in the Translation category for 2013 on February 24, 2013.

Among his forthcoming works are Gitanjali: New Translations of the Nobel-Prize winning Poems and An Ocean of Sorrow, a translation of the nineteenth century Bengali epic narrative, Bishad Sind