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name: Niaz Zaman
about: Niaz Zaman is Professor of English, University of Dhaka. She has edited several anthologies, including Selected Stories from Bangladesh, 1971 and After, The Escape and Other Stories, Under the Krishnachura, From the Delta and New Age Short Stories. Her study of the Partition, A Divided Legacy: The Partition in Selected Novels of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, won the Atwar Hussain Award of the Asiatic Society of Bangladesh and the National Archives Award. Her creative writings include The Crooked Neem Tree, The Dance and Other Stories, Didima’s Necklace and Other Stories and History of the Family of Sheikh Gul Mohammad (formerly Ghumman Mal of Bhera) with an Account of His Conversion and Some Interesting Chronicles of His Descendants. She Niaz Zaman is Professor of English, University of Dhaka. She has edited several anthologies, including Selected Stories from Bangladesh, 1971 and After, The Escape and Other Stories, Under the Krishnachura, From the Delta and New Age Short Stories. Her study of the Partition, A Divided Legacy: The Partition in Selected Novels of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, won the Atwar Hussain Award of the Asiatic Society of Bangladesh and the National Archives Award. Her creative writings include The Crooked Neem Tree, The Dance and Other Stories, Didima’s Necklace and Other Stories and History of the Family of Sheikh Gul Mohammad (formerly Ghumman Mal of Bhera) with an Account of His Conversion and Some Interesting Chronicles of His Descendants. She was consulting editor, Arts and Humanities for Banglapedia and editor of the Bangladesh Journal of American Studies. From 2003-2005, she was literary editor of New Age, Dhaka. From 1981 to 1983, Dr Zaman was posted to the Bangladesh Embassy in Washington, D.C. as Educational Attaché. ...more