Dilruba Z. Ara (born 20 November 1957) is a Swedish Bangladeshi writer,[1][2][3] novelist, artist, educator and translator.[4]
Background
Ara was born into a distinguished literary family in Bangladesh. Her father, Shahed Ali, was a Language Movement veteran, translator and Bangla Academy award-winning author of Gabriel's Wings.[5] Her mother, Professor Chemon Ara, now retired, is also an acknowledged author and Language Movement veteran. She has three brothers and two sisters.
Career
First novel A List of Offences was published in 2006.[1][6]
Second novel Blame was published in 2015.[2][7][8]
Collection of stories Detached Belonging was published in 2016.[3][9]
Translation work Selected Short Stories by Shahed Ali was published in 2006.[4][10]
Translation work En Flod till hjärta was published in 2021 .[11]
Ara moved to Sweden in 1978 and has lived in the university town of Lund since 2007. Apart from writing and painting she works as a language teacher.Her son, Navid, now an architect, lives and works in Malmö. Her daughter, Tania,now a Civil Engineer, lives in Copenhagen. Ara travels to Dhaka frequently, where her mother Professor Chemon Ara still lives in their family home in Banani.[12] Her father Shahed Ali passed away in 2001.
