Meet Human Meat and Other Stories

About the Author

Mojaffor Hossain is one of the notable authors of contemporary Bangla literature. Starting his career as a journalist, he is a translator at the Bangla Academy, Dhaka. He has eight books of short stories and multiple novels which, in recent years, have attracted much acclaim from both general readers and literary critics.

His signature style is using native realities as his settings and giving them magic-realistic or surrealistic colors. He has received some of the prestigious awards for his fiction; such as Exim Bank-Anyadin Humayun Ahmed Award, Abul Hasan Sahitya Award, and Kali O Kalam Award. He has also been awarded Arani Sahitya Puraskar and Boishakhi Television Award for his stories.

His debut novel ‘Timiryatra’ has gained popularity in very recent times. He is also known as a translator and literary critic and published 16 books so far.

Read some of his translated works.