One of the main attractions on this front this year is An Ocean of Sorrow, an English translation of Mir Mosharraf Hossain’s Bishad Sindhu, which will be featured in one of the panels on translation. This year they are set to launch several works of fiction but no translation. Bengal Lights will hit the festival with four new books of translation. Under the Library of Bangladesh series it will launch two translated novels: Rizia Rahman’s Rokter Akshar, and Moinul Ahsan Saber’s The Mercenary; a collection of poems by selected Bangladeshi poets in Khademul Islam’s translation, On My birthday and Other Poems in Translation; and The Book of Dhaka, a collection of short stories by selected Bangladeshi prose writers. This is by no means an adequate look at the body of Bangla fiction in translation and is confined to a few past years.

Source: Dhaka Tribune November 11, 2016 09:33 UTC