Dilruba Z. Ara

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Dilruba Z. Ara
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Born (1957-11-20) 20 November 1957 (age 68)
Dhaka, Bangladesh
OccupationWriter, translator, painter, educator
LanguageEnglish, Bengali, Swedish
NationalitySwedish Bangladeshi
Alma mater University of Gothenburg (Fil.Kand.) Lund University (B.Ed.)
Notable works
  • A List of Offences
  • Blame
  • Detached Belonging
Children2

Dilruba Z. Ara (born 20 November 1957) is a Swedish Bangladeshi writer, [1] [2] [3] novelist, artist, educator and translator. [4]

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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

Education

Bachelor of Education: Lund University, Sweden.

Alma Mater: University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

Bibliography

Books

Short stories

Published in Chattahoochee Review, Drunken Boat, Asia Writes, Democratic World Magazine, Swedish Institute , The Daily Star, Shipwrights ReviewVista 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 died in 2001.

References

  1. 1 2 3 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.
  2. 1 2 3 Ara, Dilruba Z. (2015). Blame. Bangladesh: University Press Ltd. ISBN   978-9845062336. OCLC   1001708582.
  3. 1 2 3 Ara, Dilruba Z. (2016). Detached Belonging. Bangladesh: University Press Ltd. ISBN   978-9845062435. OCLC   967589139.
  4. 1 2 Ali, Shahed; Ara, Dilruba Z. (2006). Selected short stories of Shahed Ali. Bangladesh: University Press Ltd. ISBN   978-9840517626. OCLC   607247307.
  5. ↑ Haque, Junaidul (28 May 2016). "Ethos behind a war". The Daily Observer. Archived from the original on 21 November 2018. Retrieved 8 April 2018.
  6. ↑ Grooms, Anthony (March 2008). "A Woman's View". Chattahoochee Review. 28 (2/3): 167.
  7. ↑ Mortuza, Shamsad (8 February 2016). "Whose blame is it anyway?". The Daily Star. Retrieved 2018-04-11.
  8. ↑ Haque, Junaidul (20 May 2016). "Blame: A 1971 novel". Dhaka Tribune. Retrieved 2018-04-11.
  9. ↑ Holmberg, Claes-Göran (12 August 2013). "Portraying man's vulnerability". The Daily Star. Retrieved 2018-04-11.
  10. ↑ "At a glance". The Daily Star. 3 November 2007. Retrieved 2018-04-11.
  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
  12. ↑ https://www.thedailystar.net/supplements/amar-ekushey-2020/news/the-women-who-broke-the-barricades-1871062. The Daily Star. Bangladesh. Retrieved 10th June 23
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