Dilruba Z Ara
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About
Swedish Bangladeshi novelist, writer, artist, and translator known for her books A List of Offences (2006), Blame (2015), and Detached Belonging (2016) and 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 1978. She attended and graduated from Gothenburg University. She published her first novel in 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 and also 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.
