Farida Majid
July 27, 1942 –September 28, 2021
Writer, Translator, Academic, Poet
Lived 79 years
- Born in
- Kolkata
- Passed away in
- Dhaka
Farida Majid (27 July 1942 – 28 September 2021) was a Bangladeshi poet, translator, and academic.
Part of the first generation of Bangladeshi writers producing English-language work, Majid was an influential member of the London literary scene in the 1970s, when she ran the independent Salamander press. She then spent two decades as a professor of language and culture in New York before returning to Bangladesh in her later years.
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