Genre: Flash Fiction

Imprint: Moving Words


Read sample of the book Dot And Other Flashes by Marzia Rahman.


Photography by Aritra Sanyal

We never forgot our roots. We never forget who we were, who we are, and who we will become. Flash Fiction aficionado Marzia Rahman collaborates with poet and exploratory photographer Aritra Sanyal to create something that blurs the definition of borders, establishes harmony and synchronization, and reminds us who we are as Bengalis, either we are in front of Bhagirathi or Padma. Snaps from KOLKATA, Flashes from DHAKA, Stories that blur BORDER, and Connect SOULS.

Book Details

Language: ‎English
Paperback: ‎68 pages
ISBN-13: ‎979-8385804276
Formats: Hardcover | Kindle | International
Price: ₹300 | ₹248 | $7.99

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Marzia Rahman is a Bangladeshi writer and translator. Her flashes have appeared in 101 Words, Postcard Shorts, Five of the Fifth, The Voices Project, The Pangolin Review, Fewerthan500.com, WordCity Literary Journal, Red Fern Review, Dribble Drabble Review, Paragraph Planet, Six Sentences, Academy of the Heart and Mind, Potato Soup Journal, Borderless Journal, The Antonym, Flash Fiction Festival Four and Writing Places Anthology UK.

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Her novella-in-flash Life on the Edges was longlisted in the Bath Novella-in-Flash Award Competition in 2018. Her novella-in-flash If Dreams had wings and Houses were built on clouds was longlisted in the Bath Novella in Flash Award Competition in 2022.

Her translations have appeared in a number of anthologies. Her translation of Syed Shamsul Haq’s The Aftermath (Ditiyo Diner Kahini) has been published by ULAB Press in 2022. Rahman is currently working on a collaborative translation project on Shahaduz Zaman’s Ekjon Komlalebu and Saleha Chowdhury’s Ekjon Jushnara’s Galpa. She is working on a series of flashes too. She is also a painter.

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Aritra Chatterjee

Aritra Sanyal (b.1983), a poet, translator, researcher, amateur photographer, and ex-sports journalist (The Statesman) works as a teacher at a school currently. He is the author of five books of poetry in Bengali, the latest of which, Bhanga Manusher Bhumikae (In the Role of a Broken Man) came out in 2020. He is the recipient of the Sunil Gangopadhyay Award (2018) conferred by Kabita Academy, West Bengal He has translated and collaborated with poets from different parts of the world. He co-edited Bridgeable Lines, a book of Bengali translation of 12 contemporary American poets in 2019. In 2021, he co-edited and published the Bengali translation of Salome, by Adeena Karasick.

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Formally trained in mechanical engineering (and a bit of biology), he maintains a keen interest in fiction and poetry. Some of his works have so far been published in different magazines and resulted in a book (Sarkis Parjaniar Diary—a collection of poems, 2021). Outside work, he loves watching cinema, football, and petting stray cats.

Read some of his translated works.