Poet Anisur Rahman gets Prince Wilhelm Literary Scholarship
Anisur Rahman, a poet and playwright from Bangladesh, recently received the Prince Wilhelm Scholarship 2013 from the Swedish PEN. The prize money of this scholarship is 10,000 Swedish Kronor (Taka 1,20,000).
The scholarship has been introduced in memory of Swedish prince Wilhelm (1884-1965) who was also an author and member of the Swedish PEN.
Rahman writes both in Bengali and English, and debuted in 2003 with the poetry collection “Empty Glass”. He currently lives in Uppsala, Sweden, where he was also a guest writer (2009-2011). He works with creative writing literary programmes through Study Promotion Association in Sweden.
Sex årstider [Six Seasons] is Rahman's first collection of poems in Swedish. Apart from a few poems from his earlier books, the book contains newly written poems from the past few years. As a playwright, Anisur has done work for theatres in Bangladesh, Norway and Sweden, Swedish Radio and NRK Norwegian Radio. Smockadoll and Dracopis Press are his international publishers. In Bangladesh he has authored a number of books in both prose and poetry. He has translated the works of a number of classic writers like Franz Kafka, Henrik Ibsen and Tomas Tranströmer into Bengali.
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