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| ISBN | 9789349203440 |
| Pages | 156 |
In this world, all are not made equal. This is a tale that brings to the fore one section of those that writhe and survive in the darker side of the equation. Born a transwoman, Mohini is a rebel by nature and compulsion. A survivor, she refuses to settle into unjust social negotiations, dreams warm and big, and claims a shining sliver of joy and fulfilment for herself. She is not alone, though. She fights as her fleeting found-family surrounds her with light and warmth. Will Mohini succeed in writing herself a new story? For her and for all humanity?
Nasima Anis was born on November 16, 1962, in Chandpur, Bangladesh, to Md. Nurul Islam and Begum Ashrafunnesa. She completed her education with an SSC from Azimpur Girls School, an HSC from Eden College, a bachelor’s degree in Bengali from Chattogram College, and a master’s degree in Bengali from Chattogram University. Although her first published work was a novel, her “literary journey” began with the short story “Dil.” Notably, her debut novel “Mohinir Thaan” was honored with the Tarun Kathasahitya Puraskar by Dainik Aajker newspaper in 2006. Another significant achievement came with her novel “Chandrabhanur Penis,” which earned her the Dainik Samakal Nabin Kathasahitya Puraskar in 2009. Over the years, she has been recognized with prestigious awards such as the Mohammed Nasiruddin Sahitya Puraskar in 2020 and the Ranajit Biswas-Abhishek Smriti Sammanana in 2021, both bestowed by the Chandpur Sahitya Mancha. With a total of fifteen published works to her credit, including five collections of short stories, five novels, and children’s literature, Nasima now dedicates her time entirely to reading and writing following her thirty-year career as a teacher.
Sarban Bandyopadhyay is an assistant professor of English at S.M.S.G. College, Sherghati under Magadh University, Bodh Gaya. Currently a functioning trilingual, he is a speculative fiction enthusiast and rhymester, as well as a translator between Bengali and English, his first two languages. His areas of academic interest include speculative fiction and Queer studies, which are also the fields he intends to creatively explore. Fascinated by languages in general, he is working on expanding his domain by reading Hindi fiction and learning some of the other major languages of India, and Japanese. His attempts to put his translations out to the world began with Wikipedia in 2014. Since 2022, his fiction and translations from English to Bengali have been published in Kalpabiswa webzine, and he translated two of the six short stories by the esteemed author Abhijit Sen in the collection Six Stories (The Antonym Collections, 2024). His works as a translator include the English short story translated into Bangla as ‘Babla Bijer Sahityik’ (November 2023), published by Kalpabiswa. He also contributed translations to the anthologies Six Stories: Abhijit Sen by Abhijit Sen and Fractal Dreams That Unmake by Soham Guha.
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