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Editor<br />
Zafar Sobhan<br />
Editor<br />
Arts & Letters<br />
Rifat Munim<br />
Team<br />
Mir Arif<br />
Rafee Shaams<br />
Qazi Mustabeen Noor<br />
Preeti Huq<br />
Fairoz Anika<br />
Hironmoy Golder<br />
Design<br />
Mahbub Alam<br />
Alamgir Hossain<br />
Shahadat Hossain<br />
Cover<br />
Jahid Jamil<br />
Illustration<br />
Jahid Jamil<br />
General Manager,<br />
Operations<br />
Bashir Ahmed<br />
Advertisement<br />
Shahin Ahsan<br />
Production<br />
Masum Billah<br />
Circulation<br />
Masud Kabir Pavel<br />
Submissions<br />
Arts & Letters<br />
welcomes submissions<br />
in fiction, flash fiction,<br />
creative non-fiction,<br />
translation, poetry,<br />
memoir and personal<br />
essay. We look forward<br />
to discovering and<br />
sharing great writing<br />
and encourage all<br />
writers to submit<br />
their work. Send in<br />
your submissions to<br />
artsandletters.dt@<br />
gmail.com<br />
DHAKA TRIBUNE | TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, <strong>2018</strong><br />
Contents<br />
3 Directors’ note<br />
4 An interview with Shamsuzzaman Khan<br />
5 10 questions for Ahsan Akbar<br />
& Mohammed Hanif’s ‘Red Birds’<br />
6 Sadaf Saaz’s article on women’s voices<br />
& K Anis Ahmed’s ‘Forty Steps’<br />
7 Richard Beard’s ‘The Day that Went Missing’<br />
& Arif Anwar’s ‘The Storm’<br />
8 Adam Johnson’s ‘The Orphan Master’s Son’<br />
& Jaishree Misra: A relentless writer<br />
9 Philip Hensher’s ‘The Friendly Ones’<br />
& James Meek’s ‘The People’s Act of Love’<br />
10 Syed Manzoorul Islam’s ‘The Merman’s<br />
Prayer’<br />
& Profile: Khademul Islam<br />
11 Profiles: Himanjali Sankar & Mitali Perkins<br />
12 Interview with Shabnam Nadiya<br />
13 Profiles: Olga Grjasnowa & Annie Zaidi<br />
14 Profiles: Kaiser Haq & Fakrul Alam<br />
15 Foreword to ‘This Path: Selected Poems of<br />
Mohammad Rafiq’<br />
& interview with Subhoranjan Dasgupta<br />
16 Nicholas Lezard on Dhaka Lit Fest<br />
17 Profiles: Tilda Swinton, Manisha Koirala,<br />
and Nandita Das<br />
18 Events: Gemcon Literary Awards, Cambridge<br />
Short Story Prize<br />
Screening of ‘Manto’, Workshops with<br />
Richard Beard<br />
& Chandrahas Choudhury<br />
20 Nishid Hajari’s ‘Midnight’s Furies’<br />
& Profiles: David Biello and Patrick Winn<br />
21 Profiles: Gwen Robinson, Rupert Hawksley,<br />
Ed Cumming Hugo Restall, and Zafar<br />
Sobhan<br />
22 Profiles: Garga Chatterjee, Sally Clayton,<br />
Amitabh Reza, and Sandra Kopp<br />
23 Profiles: Ruby Rahman, Habibullah Siraji,<br />
Shamim Reza Asad Chowdhury, Shahnaz<br />
Munni, Mahbub Aziz Suman Gun, Razu<br />
Alauddin, Kamal Chowdhury, Farid Kabir,<br />
and Anis Mohammad<br />
25 Profiles: CP Hesier, Kelly Falconer, Christian<br />
Hodell<br />
& Courtney Hodell<br />
& Granta Connection<br />
26 Profiles: Moinul Ahsan Saber, Imdadul Haq<br />
Milon, Selina Hossain, Anisul Haq, Parvez<br />
Hossain, Hamim Kamrul Haque, and Salma<br />
Bani<br />
27 84th PEN International Congress<br />
28 New books at DLF<br />
30 Poetry by Mohammad Rafiq and Shaheed<br />
Quaderi<br />
Editor's note<br />
Bringing out this special issue has been a wonderful<br />
experience of literary and intellectual exercise<br />
involving cooperation and contribution, through<br />
interviews, reviews and articles, covering a wide array of<br />
writers from across the world.<br />
This is a 32-page arrangement dedicated solely to the<br />
Dhaka Lit Fest <strong>2018</strong>. All the articles, reviews, profiles, and<br />
interviews in this issue, in some way or another, introduce<br />
readers to the Bangladeshi and foreign writers and artistes<br />
who are attending the country’s biggest literary festival<br />
this year.<br />
Putting together the articles, keeping in mind the need<br />
for representing all genres and branches of art, has been<br />
a challenging task, which would not have been possible<br />
without the contribution of a brilliant team of young writers,<br />
journalists, and graphics designers from the Dhaka<br />
Tribune who worked very hard to make this supplement<br />
happen. Thanks are also due to Dhaka Tribune’s Editor<br />
Zafar Sobhan and its Publisher K. Anis Ahmed, who’s also<br />
a director of the DLF, for their all-out support.<br />
I hope readers find it a read worth their while.<br />
<br />
<br />
Rifat Munim<br />
Illustration: Jahid Jamil<br />
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ARTS & LETTERS<br />
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, <strong>2018</strong> | DHAKA TRIBUNE
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