Mohiuddin Jahangir V. Ramaswamy

Mohiuddin Jahangir was born in Manikganj Sadar Upazila, Bangladesh, and obtained his PhD in Bengali from the University of Dhaka. He has had a longstanding engagement in field research on the Liberation War in Manikganj district. He is currently Assistant Professor in Khabashpur Adarsa University College. His articles on literature, history and heritage have been published in scholarly journals, and he is the author of seven books.

V. Ramaswamy took up literary translation from Bangla after two decades of social activism in favour of the labouring poor of Kolkata. The writers he has translated include Subimal Misra, Manoranjan Byapari, Adhir Biswas, Shahidul Zahir, Mashiul Alam, Swati Guha, Shahaduz Zaman and Ismail Darbesh. He was awarded the Translation Fellowship by the New India Foundation, and the English PEN Presents award in 2022.