Alam KhorshedALAM KHORSHED graduated as a Mechanical Engineer from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka and did his Post Graduate studies at Baruch College of City University of New York, USA. He worked for, among others, GlaxoSmithKline Phamaceuticals in Chittagong, and Canadian Aviation Electronics (CAE) in Montreal, Canada. He eventually returned to Bangladesh in 2004 to embrace his real passion: arts and literature. He is now engaged as a full-time writer, translator, critic and arts organizer. After successfully running a unique socio-cultural organization named Bishaud Bangla in Chittagong for nine years, he founded a new arts space called Bistaar: Chittagong Arts Complex in December 2014, and has been working as its Founding Director since. He has authored more than twenty books in Bengali, mostly works of translation and literary essays. Among them, the most notables are: translations of Virginia Woolf's 'A Room of One's Own'; 'Reflections', an autobiographical book of Henry Miller; an anthology of poems of the Polish Nobel laureate Wislawa Szymborska; a book length conversation between the two great Argentine writers Jorge Louis Borges and Victoria Ocampo translated from the Spanish; 'The Jaguar Smile', the first work of non-fiction by Salman Rushdie, and 'I Shall Marry When I Want', a Play by the Kenyan writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o. Read More Read Less