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Mashrur Arefin (born 9 October 1969) is a Bangladeshi poet, novelist, and writer. He started his writing and literary journey around 1990 and his first book 'Ishwardi Mayor O Mule er Golpo' was published in 2001. Arefin wrote two novels and two poetry books till now and is working on a novel and another poetry book. Also being interested about translation, Arefin translated many stories of Franz Kafka and the ancient greek epic poem Iliad in Bangla language.

Arefin occassionaly writes about literature for various newspaper and literary supplements.

Early life
He was born in Barishal. Later his family moved to Khulna and Arefin grew up there.

Education and Adulthood
After passing S.S.C and H.S.C from Barishal Cadet College he studied English Literature at Aligarh Muslim University. Then he got his M.A from Dhaka University. In 1995 Arefin started his career at Greenledge Bank Limited as a management trainee. He completed his MBA from Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia.

Literary Work
He started writing and translating early in the 90s while he still was a student. Back then his writing and translation works had been published in various literary magazine and literary supplements of Bangladesh.

Ishwardi Mayor O Mule er Golpo (Poetry)
Ishwardi Mayor O Mule er Golpo, a book of a long poem was published in 2001 from 'দ' Prokashoni. It was his first book. Ishwardi Mayor O Mule er Golpo was an attempt to explore a new prose and imagery with Bangla language.

August Aabchaya (Novel)
It is his first novel. The novel is a fictional work on the assasination of the first president of Bangladesh Sheikh Mujibur Rahman which is known as 'Bangabandhu Killing'. It was first published in the Ekushey Book Fair, 2019 from Prthoma Prokashoni.

Althusser (Novel)
His second novel. It was named on the famous french philosopher Louis Althusser.It was first published in the Ekushey Book Fair, 2020.

Style
Arefin got inspirations from some of the famous writers of world literature and Bengali literature, such as Jorge Luis Borges, Marcel Proust, W. G. Sebald, Jibanananda Das, Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay and many others. Arefin's style of his literary works is considered to be unique.

Novels

 * August Aabchaya (2019)
 * ''Althusser' (2020)

Poetry

 * Ishwardi, Mayor O Mule er Golpo (2001)
 * Prithibi Elomelo Shokalbelay (2020)

Translation

 * Kafka Golpo-Shomogro 1 (2013)
 * Iliad (2015)