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Anisur Rahman (born 1978, আনিসুর রহমান) is a Bengali-Swedish poet, novelist, playwright, translator, literary critic, popular educator and journalist. He was born in Digarbaiid, a village in Madhupur in the district of Tangail, Bangladesh.

Full time author, Anisur Rahman shares his time between Uppsala and Dhaka. His official website: www.anisur.net

Anisur Rahman writes in his mother tongue Bengali. Swedish and English are his working language. In addition to these three languages, his literary works have been translated into different languages for instance Danish, Norwegian, Tamil, Persian, Georgian, Armenian, Spanish and Serbian.

He is heavily involved in popular creative adult education (folkbildning to promote reading and writing through Uppsala Centre for Literature www.litteraturcentrum.se and Swedish Study Promotion Association (Studiefrämjandet)      www.studieframjandet.se. He leads creative writing literary programmes in different cities notably Uppsala, Oslo, Belgrade, Dhaka, Tbilisi, Baticola and Yangon.

He is a member of Bangla Academy http://banglaacademy.gov.bd/, Dhaka, board member at the Swedish Writers' Union  www.forfattarforbundet.se, honourary member at the Swedish PEN  www.svenskapen.se and member at the Swedish Playwrights' Unionhttps://www.dramatiker.se/.

He has authored over thirty books in various genres of writing including poetry, novel, short story, play, essay and translation. His plays have been commissioned and produced by Swedish Radio Theatre and NRK Norwegian Radio Theatre as well as theatres in Bangladesh, Sweden, Norway, Georgia and Armenia.

His international publishing houses are Smockadoll www.smockadoll.se and Dracopis Press http://www.dracopis.com/ Dhaka based publishers of his books aee Ananya (অনন্যা) and Journeyman Books (জার্নিম্যান বুকস).

His books are available on https://www.rokomari.com/book/author/1355/%E0%A6%86%E0%A6%A8%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B8%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%B0-%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%B9%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A8

Anisur Rahman is heavily involved in contributing debate and literary pieces to www.unt.se and https://bangla.bdnews24.com/ ; https://bdnews24.com/