Saad Z. Hossain

A portrait of Saad Z. Hossain.
2024 Resident
  • Asia
  • Southern Asia
  • Bangladesh
English

Saad Z. HOSSAIN (fiction writer; Bangladesh) is the author of five books, most recently the novella Kundo Wakes Up (2022) and the novel Cyber Mage (2021). The former was on the Locus recommended reading list for 2022, and Hossain has previously been a finalist for the Locus Awards, the IGNYTE awards, and the Grand Prix de l’imaginaire. He is currently working on a novel about djinns, martial artists, and refugees. His participation was made possible by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs at the U.S. Department of State.  

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Happening Now

  • In a recent Haaretz piece, Odeh Bisharat describes the efforts of the Arab-Jewish solidarity movement Standing Together to collect food for needy Gazans as well as build a long-term political coalition.

  • Among the upcoming titles at the lively regional CEEOL Press is 1945 and Other Stories., an English translation of Gábor Szántó’s Hungarian original.

  • An excerpt from Lidija Dimkovska’s most recent novel [Personal Identity Number] appears in the July 2024 issue of World Literature Today.

  • The Spring 2024 issue of the Michigan Quarterly Review features an excerpt from Amira-Géhanne Khalfallah’s new novel Onboard the Amsterdam or, the Last Voyage of Ibn Battûta,  surveying the burning topics of migrancy, radicalization, and exile. 
     

  • In an opinion piece for NYTimes, Veronica Raimo plumbs the (shallow) depths of Italian women’s media representation.

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