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Shabnam Nadiya

Contributor

Shabnam Nadiya

Bangladesh

Shabnam Nadiya grew up in Jahangirnagar, a small college campus in Bangladesh. She has an MFA from and is the 2013-14 Schulze Fellow at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop; and is currently working on a collection of linked stories called Pariah Dog and Others.

Photo: Ilana Aratrika Shabnam

Articles by Shabnam Nadiya

Delbahar and Ghee

By Prasanta Mridha

The most astonishing thing about these men was their ability to eyeball measurements.

Translated from Bengali by Shabnam Nadiya

Multilingual

Me and Mycobacterium tuberculosis

By Shahaduz Zaman

“And that shadowy bit you see up there, that’s the thing that has me worried.”

Translated from Bengali by Shabnam Nadiya

From the Translator: On Translating Bangla Literature

By Shabnam Nadiya

I translated my first story when I was thirteen. It was done for purely altruistic reasons: I’d read a fabulous sci-fi story by Robert Sheckley called The Odor of Thought and wanted my best friend…

An Indian Citizen in Our Town

By Mashiul Alam

He can clearly see all of this life of seventy-three years, two months and thirteen days.

Translated from Bengali by Shabnam Nadiya

Hands

By Anwara Syed Haq

The things he could mend! From jewelry to shoe soles, from punctured tires to bent bicycle spokes–he fixed it all.

Translated from Bengali by Shabnam Nadiya

Snakes, Husbands, Ashalota, and Us

By Shaheen Akhtar

The rest of the night we refold our spread-open bodies dreaming snake-dreams.

Translated from Bengali by Shabnam Nadiya

Parul’s Motherhood

By Selina Hossain

Parul calculated that it had been around six months since the man had disappeared. Some said he had drowned at sea, some that he had gone to Dhaka for work. Parul didn't care where the hell he went,…

Translated from Bengali by Shabnam Nadiya