Alam Khorshed (b. 1960) graduated as a mechanical engineer with a Bachelor’s degree from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka, and undertook postgraduate studies at Baruch College of the City University of New York, USA. After working for nearly fifteen years, he gave up engineering as a profession and returned to Bangladesh in 2004 to embrace his real passion, arts. During his student years, Khorshed was actively engaged with the group theatre, film society and contemporary art movements of Bangladesh and earned national acclaim as a television debater. He is now engaged as a full-time writer, translator, critic, cultural activist and an arts organiser. After successfully running a unique socio-cultural organisation named Bishaud Bangla in Chittagong for nine years, Khorshed founded a new arts space called Bistaar: Chittagong Arts Complex in December 2014 and has been working as the Founding Director of it since. Khorshed has authored more than twenty books in Bengali, mostly works of translation and literary essays. Among them, the most notable are translations of Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own; Reflections, an autobiographical book of Henry Miller; and The Jaguar Smile, the first work of non-fiction by Salman Rushdie. He has successfully completed an Arts Management Fellowship program offered by the Goethe Institute in association with ARThink South Asia, India, and British Council in 2012. He currently anchors a talk show on arts and literature for Chittagong television.