Farah Ghuznavi
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Farah Ghuznavi is a writer and newspaper columnist, with a professional background in development work in Asia, Africa and Europe. She remains an unrepentant idealist despite the existence of empirical evidence that suggests it might be better to think otherwise.Farah began writing fiction in the desperate hope that putting stories down on paper would send them on their way and out of her head. Her work has been published in the UK, US, Canada, Singapore, France, India, Nepal and her native Bangladesh. Forthcoming publications are planned in Germany and Afghanistan.
Her story “Judgement Day” was Highly Commended in the Commonwealth Competition 2010, and “Getting There” placed second in the Oxford GEF Competition. Farah’s first short story collection, Fragments of Riversong was published by Daily Star Books in 2013. In 2012, she edited Lifelines, an anthology of new Bangladeshi writing for Zubaan Books. She is writer in residence at Commonwealth Writers. Her work has been featured in magazines and anthologies in the UK, US, Singapore and Bangladesh. This story, “Judgement Day” was Highly Commended in the 2010 Commonwealth Short Story Competition, and another was awarded second place in the Oxford University GEF Competition. Her short fiction features in the recently published anthologies “Woman’s Work: Short Stories” (GirlChild Press, USA), “The Rainbow Feast” (Marshall Cavendish, Singapore) and the “Journeys” anthology (Sampad, Britain) launched at the Birmingham literary festival in October 2010. Farah is a contributor to “From the Delta”, an anthology of stories from Bangladesh, and a columnist for the Star Magazine in Bangladesh. She draws on her experiences as a development professional for inspiration in her writing, and remains an unrepentant idealist. She has worked for NGOs in Bangladesh, Britain and Africa, as well as with the United Nations, and the Grameen Bank, famous for its collateral-free loans to poor women.
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