novel Happiness Comes from Nowhere has been described by the Sunday Independent as a “thoroughly enjoyable and refreshingly challenging debut novel”.
Silpa Sajan
Sofiul Azam
Silpa Sajan is currently pursuing her degree in BA English Copy Editing at SH College, Thevara. She loves to write poems. She is a good singer as well.
Born in Sherpur District, Bangladesh, in 1981, Sofiul Azam has earned Honours and Masters in English Literature from Rajshahi University. He has authored three books of poetry titled Impasse, (Dhaka: Pathak Shamabesh, 2003), Home Thoughts from Home (Dhaka: Ulukhar – Little Magazine Publication, 2009), In Love with a Gorgon (Aarhus: Les Editions du Zaporogue, 2010 and County Claire: Salmon Poetry, Oct. 2013) and edited Short Stories of Selim Morshed, (Dhaka: Ulukhar, 2009). His poems have appeared in literary magazines and journals across the world such as Poetry Salzburg Review, Prairie Schooner, Poetry Magazine, Le Zaporogue, Catamaran, Lowe Prose & Poetics, Both Sides Now, The Journal, Orbis, The Cannon’s Mouth, Monkey Kettle, Forward Press, Conversation Poetry Quarterly, Boyne Berries, Deep South, Grey Borders, Postcolonial Text, Protocol, Trillium Literary Journal, The Cartier Street Review, Word Salad Poetry Magazine, Red River Review, Debris Magazine, The Flash Review, Apollo’s Lyre, etc. and some are anthologized in Journeys, Poets Against War, Poetry for Charity Volume 2, etc. Moreover, he is now working on his next collection of poems Earth and Windows: New and Selected Poems as well as on a book of short interlinked stories. He loves to write creative non-fiction and his first non-fictional prose turns out to be A Double-born Kid’s Tale – a work in progress. His research interests include postcolonial theories with reference to cultural politics and emancipatory aesthetics in the domain of postcolonial literatures across the globe, and he is writing “Not Afraid of Double Rejections: Notes on a Cultural Translation in Postcolonial Literatures.” Now he lives in Dhaka and teaches English at Victoria University of Bangladesh, having taught it before at Southeast University and at Royal University of Dhaka.