Hasan Khurshid Rumi

Hasan Khurshid Rumi is a Bangladeshi writer, translator and editor and cover designer. Heassociated with audio-visual media and was the co-editor of the first Bangladeshi Science Fiction magazines Moulik and Unmad.

Personal life

Hasan Khurshid Rumi was born on November 2, 1959 in Chittagong. He grew up in Old Dhaka. His grandfather helped make the Indian constitution. He graduated from Jagannath University.

His mother and his grandfather's collection inspired him to become a writer.

Career

With Humayun Ahmed and Muhammed Zafar Iqbal he helped establish Bengali science fiction. He mentored many young translators and sci-fi writers. He wrote Ora Esechilo, a collection of SF short stories. He wrote many stories and articles in Rohosho Potrika, a thriller and SF magazine from 1970 to 1990. He translated nearly 30 books and edited another 40.

Rumi co-edited Bangladesh's first SF magazine Moulik and was on the editorial board of Kishor Patrika, He is the Associate Executive Editor of Unmad. For 25 years, SF was its only format. He edited short stories coming from West Bengal, India and Bangladesh.

He is also a successful cover designer and media organizer.

Anonymity

While mentoring nearly 50 writers and translators in various ways, helping to publish many books, translating Western stories, he maintained his privacy. No published photograph of him exists.

In Ohok, Humayun Ahmed said that Rumi would put Science Fiction in Bangladesh on air.

Partial bibliography

Translations

Science Fictions (Edited)

Other Works Edited by Him

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