Английская Википедия:Abdus Selim
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Abdus Selim (born 19 September 1945)[1] is a Bangladeshi academic, writer and translator. He was awarded Bangla Academy Literary Award in 2015 in the translation category and Shaheed Muneir Chowdhury Award in 2010 for his contribution to theatre.[2][3] He is currently a faculty member of the Department of English Language-Literature at Central Women's University.[4]
Background
Selim completed his bachelor's and master's in English from the University of Dhaka.[3] He got his breakthrough in translation work by translating Bertolt Brecht's Life of Galileo in 1975 on a request by film director Masihuddin Shaker and was published in 1979.[5] [6] Nagorik Natya Sampradaya theatre group staged the play under the direction of Ataur Rahman in 1988.[5]
Career
Selim taught at the teachers' training college in Libya as well as in England, United States and Germany.[3] He occasionally teaches the Aesthetics of Theatre at Ramendu Majumdar's theatre school.[3] He served as the vice-president and an executive body member of International Theatre Institute.[3] He was a faculty member of the English Department at North South University.[3]
Majority of the drama plays translated by Selim have been directed by Ataur Rahman.[5]
Translation works
- Life of Galileo, Mother Courage and Her Children and Round Heads and Pointed Heads by Bertolt Brecht[5]
- Lady from the Sea by Henrik Ibsen
- One Hundred Sacks of Rice by Yūzō Yamamoto
- The Homecoming and The Birthday Party by Harold Pinter
- Play with a Tiger by Doris Lessing
- Nocturnal Wanderer by Gao Xingjian
- Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
- Would-be Gentleman by Moliere
- The Mousetrap by Agatha Christie
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Caroll[7]
- The Government Inspector of Nikolai Gogol[5]
Awards
- Bangla Academy Literary Award (2005)
- Uchimura Prize (2008)
- Shaheed Muneir Chowdhury Award (2010)
References
External links
- Английская Википедия
- 1945 births
- Living people
- People from Chuadanga District
- University of Dhaka alumni
- Bangladeshi male writers
- Academic staff of the North South University
- Bangladeshi translators
- Recipients of Bangla Academy Literary Award in Translation Literature
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