Dilruba Z Ara

Novelist

Birthday November 20, 1957

Birth Sign Scorpio

Birthplace Dhaka, Bangladesh

Age 67 years old

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About

Swedish and Bangladeshi novelist, writer, artist, and translator who is known for her books A List of Offences (2006), Blame (2015), and Detached Belonging (2016), as well as for her translation work of Selected Short Stories by Shahed Ali (2006) and En Flod till hjärta (2021).

Before Fame

She moved from Bangladesh to Sweden in the year 1978. She attended and graduated from Gothenburg University prior to beginning her career as a professional novelist and writer. She later published her first novel in the year 2006.

Trivia

She translated some Pippi Longstocking stories from Swedish into Bengali. She has degrees in English, Swedish, Classical Arabic, and Linguistics from Gothenburg University, as well as a teaching degree from Lund University.

Family Life

She was born and raised in Bangladesh. Several of her family members were published authors. She has three brothers and two sisters. She has two children named Navid and Tania.

Associated With

She is a female Bangladeshi novelist living abroad in Europe just like Monica Ali.