Alam Khorshed
Alam Khorshed (b. 1960) graduated as a mechanical engineer with a Bachelor’s degree from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka, and undertook postgraduate studies at Baruch College of the City University of New York, USA. After working for nearly fifteen years, he gave up engineering as a profession and returned to Bangladesh in 2004 to embrace his real passion, arts. During his student years, Khorshed was actively engaged with the group theatre, film society and contemporary art movements of Bangladesh and earned national acclaim as a television debater. He is now engaged as a full-time writer, translator, critic, cultural activist and an arts organiser. After successfully running a unique socio-cultural organisation named Bishaud Bangla in Chittagong for nine years, Khorshed founded a new arts space called Bistaar: Chittagong Arts Complex in December 2014 and has been working as the Founding Director of it since. Khorshed has authored more than twenty books in Bengali, mostly works of translation and literary essays.