Kaiser Haq

Kaiser Haq studied at the universities of Dhaka and Warwick, was a Senior Fulbright Scholar, Royal Literary Fund Fellow, and having retired from Dhaka University after 41 years of teaching, is currently professor of English and Dean of Arts and Humanities at ULAB. He won the Bangla Academy Prize for Translation, the Sherwin W. Howard Award for poetry, and SALA’s Distinguished Achievement Award for Creative Writing. His books are: nine poetry collections, most recently Published in the Streets of Dhaka (2012), Pariah and Other Poems (2013), and The New Frontier & Other Odds and Ends in Verse and Prose (2024); seven translated volumes: Selected Poems of Shamsur Rahman (2008); Quartet (1993); The Wonders of Vilayet (2002); The Perfect Model and Other Stories (2002); The Woman Who Flew (2012); The Triumph of the Snake Goddess (2015); Selected Poems of Shaheed Quaderi (2018); and two edited anthologies.