{"id":565,"date":"2025-09-20T11:31:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T15:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/literaturefest.ca\/?page_id=565"},"modified":"2025-09-28T03:19:35","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T07:19:35","slug":"samina-chowdhury","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/literaturefest.ca\/samina-chowdhury\/","title":{"rendered":"Samina Chowdhury"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\">[vc_row el_id=&#8221;getting-here&#8221;][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1759043967744{margin-top: 60px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;}&#8221;]\n<h1 class=\"display-2 special-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Authors<\/h1>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]\n<h5 class=\"display-2 special-title\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Samina Chowdhury<\/h5>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]Samina Chowdhury,\u00a0a Toronto-based Bengali writer, was born in Bangladesh. Previously she\u00a0\u00a0had taught at BRAC University, Bangladesh, after completing her M.A. in English from the Jahangirnagar University. Nine of her research articles have been published in national andinternational journals. She was a contributing writer for the English in School project at The Daily Star and worked Book Translation project with\u00a0Bishwo Shahitto Kendro. To date, she has reviewed thirty books which have been published in various newspapers from Toronto, New York and Dhaka. 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