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description: Shaheen Akhtar is the author of five novels and four short story collections. In 2004 her novel Talaash won the Prothom Alo Book of the Year award. The English translation of Talaash (The Search trans. Ella Dutta) was published by Zubaan in New Delhi in 2011. Akhtar was presented with the Sera Bangali 2014 award in the field of literature by Indias leading Bengali news channel ABP Ananda. She received the Akhteruzzaman Elias Katha Shahitya Puroshkar for her novel Moyur Shinghason and the Bangla Academy Shahitya Puroshkar for fiction. Her work has been translated into English German and Korean.Mashiul Alam was born in northern Bangladesh in 1966. He graduated in journalism from the Peoples Friendship University of Russia in Moscow in 1993. He works at Prothom Alo the leading Bengali daily in Bangladesh. He is the author of a dozen books including Second Night with Tanushree (a novel) Ghora Masud (a novella) Mangsher Karbar (The Meat Market short stories) and Pakistan (short stories). His short story An Indian Citizen in Our Town (trans. Shabnam Nadiya) was published in Words Without Borders 2013 Bangladesh feature.Shabnam Nadiya is a Bangladeshi writer and translator in California. She graduated from the Iowa Writers Workshop in 2012. Her translation of Moinul Ahsan Sabers novel The Mercenary was published in 2018 (US edition) and Shaheen Akhtars Beloved Rongomala is forthcoming both from Seagull Books. She has published her own work and translations in journals such as Joyland Gulf Coast Asymptote Words Without Borders Wasafiri Five Chapters Bengal Lights and The Missing Slate as well as various anthologies. She is the recipient of the 2019-2020 Steinbeck Fellowship.
language: English
title: The Meat Market
publisher: Toad Press