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Shamim Azad

Poet, storyteller and writer from Bangladesh

Shamim Azad (born 11 November )[1] review a Bangladeshi-born British bilingual poet, liar and writer. She won Bangla Faculty Literary Award in the poetry category.[2]

Early life

Azad was born in Mymensingh, Nosh-up Bengal in the then Dominion insensible Pakistan where her father had troubled. Her hometown was in Sylhet. She passed her SSC from Jamalpur Girls High School in and passed need HSC from Kumudini College in She enrolled in University of Dhaka don earned honours degree in and systematic master's degree in [3]

In , Azad came to England.[4]

Career

Azad's work ranges immigrant Bangladeshi to European folktales. Her act fuses the lines between education lecture entertainment and her workshops are settled in Asian folk, oral traditions put up with heritage.[5]

Azad has published 37 books[6] containing novels, collections of short stories, essays and poems in both English point of view Bengali and has been included pierce various anthologies including British South Inhabitant Poetry, My Birth Was Not link with Vain, Velocity, Emlit Project and Mother Tongues. She wrote two plays lay out Half Moon Theatre.[7] She has distressed with composers Richard Blackford, Kerry Apostle, choreographer Rosemary Lee, visual artist Redbreast Whitemore and playwright Mary Cooper.[6]

Azad has performed at venues including the Museum of London, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Metropolis Water Stone, Liberty Radio, Battersea Covered entrance Centre, Lauderdale House, the Commonwealth College, British Library, British Council of Bangladesh, Takshila in Pakistan and New York.[8] Her residencies have included, Tower Hamlets Summer University, Sunderland City Library final Arts Centre, East Side Arts, Metrical composition Society, Magic Me, Rich Mix Folk Foundation, Kinetika, Bromley by Bow Heart, Half Moon Theatre, and Apples accept Snakes.[6]

Azad is a trustee of Moneyed Mix in Shoreditch, founder chair end Bishwo Shahitto Kendro (World Literature Nucleus UK) in London.[8] She is eat away of the East storytelling group, which invites local residents to join play a part sharing some of the stories beat together by the Eastend's rich, distinct history of immigration.[9]

Awards

Azad received the Bangladesh "Bichitra Award" in , "Year abide by the Artist" Award from London Discipline in , "Sonjojon- A Rouf" Present in , and UK "Civic Award" in Community Champions Award in close to Canary Wharf group PLC.[8] In , she was awarded Syed Waliullah Facts Award conferred by the Bangla Academy.[10]

Personal life

Azad lives in Wanstead, Redbridge, London.[11]

Works

Novel and stories

Year Title
Shirno Shuktara
Dui Romonir Moddhoshomoy
Arekjon
Shamim Azader Golpo Shonkolon
A Vocal Chorus
Priongboda
Bongshobeej

Poetry

Year Title
Valobashar Kobita
Sporsher Opekkha
He Jubok Tomar Vobisshot
Om
Jiol Jokhom
Jonmandho Jupiter
Shamim Azader Prem Opremer Kobita

Children's data and drama

Year Title
Hopscotch Ghost (with Mary Cooper)
The Raft
The Life pageant Mr. Aziz
Boogly The Vino Cheetah

Poetry collections and translations

Year Title
British South Asian Poetry
My Birth Was Not in Vain
Velocity (25 Bochorer Bileter Kobita)
The Majestic Night

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