Farah Ghuznavi
Farah Ghuznavi is a writer, translator and newspaper columnist, with a background in development work. She holds an undergraduate and two postgraduate degrees from the London School of Economics, and has worked for the Grameen Bank and the United Nations Development Programme, as well as NGOs in the UK, Bangladesh and elsewhere.
She remains an unrepentant idealist despite the existence of empirical evidence suggesting that it might be better to think otherwise.
Farah began writing fiction in a desperate attempt to make the stories leave her in peace, in the hope that putting them down on paper would send them on their way. So far, this strategy appears to be working, one story at a time.
Farah’s work has been published in a number of story collections and literary magazines in Britain, the US, Canada, Singapore, India, Nepal and her native Bangladesh.
These include the fiction anthologies The Storm is Coming (Sleeping Cat Books, USA), Curbside Splendor Issues 1 and 2 (Curbside Splendor, USA ), The Path, Winter Issue 2011 (The Path to Publication, USA) and Woman's Work (Girl Child Press, USA); Lady Fest: Winning Stories from the Oxford Gender Equality Festival (Dead Ink, UK), The Monster Book for Girls (Exaggerated Press, UK) and Journeys (Sampad, UK ); The Rainbow Feast (Marshall Cavendish, Singapore); La.Lit Vol. 1 (Nepal); What the Ink? (Writer’s Block, Bangladesh), Sticks and Stones Vol. 1 (Sticks and Stones, Bangladesh) and From the Delta (UPL, Bangladesh); and Lifelines (Zubaan Books, India).
Her story "Judgement Day" was Highly Commended in the 2010 Commonwealth Short Story Competition, and another story, “Getting There”, placed second in the Oxford Gender Equality Festival Short Story Competition. Farah is working to finalise a manuscript of her own short stories and has most recently edited and contributed to Lifelines, an anthology of new writing from Bangladesh for Zubaan Books, India.
She is a regular contributor to The Star Magazine, which is affiliated to the Daily Star newspaper in Bangladesh, and writes a fortnightly column entitled "Food for Thought”. Her website is under construction at: www.farahghuznavi.com
She remains an unrepentant idealist despite the existence of empirical evidence suggesting that it might be better to think otherwise.
Farah began writing fiction in a desperate attempt to make the stories leave her in peace, in the hope that putting them down on paper would send them on their way. So far, this strategy appears to be working, one story at a time.
Farah’s work has been published in a number of story collections and literary magazines in Britain, the US, Canada, Singapore, India, Nepal and her native Bangladesh.
These include the fiction anthologies The Storm is Coming (Sleeping Cat Books, USA), Curbside Splendor Issues 1 and 2 (Curbside Splendor, USA ), The Path, Winter Issue 2011 (The Path to Publication, USA) and Woman's Work (Girl Child Press, USA); Lady Fest: Winning Stories from the Oxford Gender Equality Festival (Dead Ink, UK), The Monster Book for Girls (Exaggerated Press, UK) and Journeys (Sampad, UK ); The Rainbow Feast (Marshall Cavendish, Singapore); La.Lit Vol. 1 (Nepal); What the Ink? (Writer’s Block, Bangladesh), Sticks and Stones Vol. 1 (Sticks and Stones, Bangladesh) and From the Delta (UPL, Bangladesh); and Lifelines (Zubaan Books, India).
Her story "Judgement Day" was Highly Commended in the 2010 Commonwealth Short Story Competition, and another story, “Getting There”, placed second in the Oxford Gender Equality Festival Short Story Competition. Farah is working to finalise a manuscript of her own short stories and has most recently edited and contributed to Lifelines, an anthology of new writing from Bangladesh for Zubaan Books, India.
She is a regular contributor to The Star Magazine, which is affiliated to the Daily Star newspaper in Bangladesh, and writes a fortnightly column entitled "Food for Thought”. Her website is under construction at: www.farahghuznavi.com
