Niaz Zaman

Niaz Zaman (Ali) is a Bangladeshi translator and a supernumerary professor at the University of Dhaka. She was awarded 2016 Bangla Academy Literary Award in the translation category.

Education and career
Zaman completed her I.A. and B.A. from Holy Cross College and M.A. from the University of Dhaka. She joined Dhaka University as a lecturer of English in 1972. She founded her publishing house writers.ink in 2005. Zaman was affiliated to the Bangladesh Embassy in Washington, D.C. as Educational Attaché for around three years.

Awards

 * Bangla Academy Literary Award (2017)
 * Ananya Award (2013)
 * National Archives Award
 * Asiaweek Short Story Award

Publications

 * The Confessional Art of Tennessee Williams
 * The Art of Kantha Embroidery
 * A Divided Legacy: The Partition in Selected Novels of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh
 * The Crooked Neem Tree
 * The Dance and Other Stories
 * Didima's Necklace and Other Stories
 * The Daily Woman