Neamat Imam
| Neamat Imam | |
|---|---|
 |
|
| Born |
5 January 1971 Chandpur, East Pakistan |
| Nationality | Bangladeshi-Canadian |
| Ethnicity | Bengali |
| Citizenship | Canadian |
| Education | PhD in Theatre Studies, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece, 2003 |
| Alma mater | Dhaka University |
| Period | 1995–present |
| Genre | Drama, historical fiction, short fiction, novel |
| Spouse | He Wen Shu |
| Website | |
| neamatimam |
|
Neamat Imam (Bengali: নেয়ামত ইমাম; born 5 January 1971) is a Bangladeshi-Canadian author of literary fiction. His first novel, The Black Coat, was published by Penguin Books India from its Hamish Hamilton imprint in 2013. It is considered the "gold standard for any book which seeks to engage with South Asian politics or history" and a "future classic." He has also authored 2 plays, 2 novellas, and a collection of poetry in Bengali language.
Imam was born in a small agricultural village under the district of Chandpur in Bangladesh. It was a village which had no school, no shops, post-office, mosque and no electricity, for which his lessons in alphabet began in the light of a lantern. His father was an elementary schoolteacher and his mother a housewife. He lost his mother when he was 8 and his father when he was 15. Third among four children of his parents, he was raised by his elder brother and elder sister who were senior to him only by a few years. He first saw a newspaper that his brother brought from his office when he was 13 and sat before a TV set for the first time when he was 14.
Imam’s first book, Paravarti Drishya (Bengali: পরবর্তী দৃশ্য: 1996) was a play in Bengali. It was published by Bangla Academy in Dhaka under its Young Writers Project programme. It was followed by 2 novellas, Elephant Road (Bengali: এলিফ্যান্ট রোড: 1997) and Boidik (Bengali: বৈদিক: 1999). Both Elephant Road and Boidik, and his one-act play Nispriho Nishshoron (Bengali: নিস্পৃহ নিঃসরণ: 1993), were first published in Uttaradhiker (Bengali: উত্তরাধিকার), the Bangla Academy journal for creative writing. 11 years after the publication of Boidik, Adorsho Publishers in Dhaka published his first poetry collection Amaar Rashtro Amaar Nagorik (Bengali: আমার রাষ্ট্র আমার নাগরিক: 2010). Imam also adapted 2 British plays for Bangladesh Television (Edward Bond's Stone [পাথর] and John Osborne's Look Back in Anger [ক্ষোভ]), which were starred by such popular actors as Enamul Haque, Lucky Enam, Shirin Bokul and Zamal Uddin Hussain and produced by BTV Director Faridur Rahman.
...
Wikipedia