Biography Of Author/ Poet
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Sayeeda Sharmin :
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Sayeeda Sharmin is a bilingual Canadian Author, Poet, and a Translator ,who has published several poetry and novel books. She was Born 9th November in Bangladesh. Her first book (“Amar Vhubon”)was published in 1995. Since childhood Sharmin has been reciting poetry on many occasions. She enjoys expressing and crafting the world issues through her poetry. She also goes by the nickname Ruma. She has been involved in literature since a noticeably young age. Poet Sayeeda Sharmin is an internationally recognized for her writing and reciting poetry since from many years. In addition to poetry, she wrote a lot of stories, novels, features, lyrics from at an incredibly young age. She has published several books, novels, storybooks and features in news and magazines.
Almost 30 books she published include poetry, Novels, stories, song lyrics, etc. Her poetries have been translated in so many languages and included in many anthologies around the world. She has published more than 1000 thousand poetries in Bangla and more than 200 poetries in English. She has received national and internationally more than 35 awards around the world and so many certificate and honors for her contribution to world literature. Recently, she won "National Poet of Bangladesh, Kazi Nazrul Islam Birth Anniversary Award-2022" from "SahityaPata" of Bangladesh.
When Sharmin was in grade 11, she was the editor of a magazine called “Jagriti” and they were paper magazine and wall magazine. As a child, she was the main leader for one of the childrens’ association, and she has been always given leadership to the Girl’s Guide in school life. Sharmin has received so many awards since childhood for various activities such as writing, reciting poetry, singing, painting, sports and in education. She received so many international awards from so many other countries. She received many acknowledgements from the Government of Canada for her efforts and excellency of her poetry, literature and providing services to her community.
Sharmin’s mother and father both came from a prominent Sufi family. She grew up in a family where both of her parents were-known authors and both parents were eminent educationalist, and they built many schools and colleges.
She has one sister and two brothers. Sharmin’s sister and one of her younger brother both are scientists and her youngest brother is a doctor.
Through Sharmin’s poetry there are various metaphors used in her poems, although they are very high in terms of philosophy and emotion. Some of her books you can find on Amazon, Barnes & Nobels, Indigo, Rokomari, (Bangladesh), Bangla Bazar (Bangladesh), Aziz Market
(Bangladesh). Many of her Bangla books were published in Bangladesh, thus they can be purchased in Bangladesh which are not listed on Amazon.
Sharmin always had the thrive to help others and build a strong community for a better future. She is the Founder and President of “Angeena International Non-Profit Organization.” She received excellence award and recognition for social activist from the Canadian Government along with a letter from the Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau.
In 2017, an organization “ Canada Sinfonietta” invited Sharmin to perform her own poetry and a song to celebrate 150 years of Canada. At a very young age Sharmin was a listed singer for Bangladesh Betar (Radio), where she used to perform various songs. She received few awards singing, poetry recitation from “Shishu Academy”, “Shilpkola Academy” in Bangladesh and many others. In 2009, Sharmin’s poetry book “Josnay Camouflage” had the launched at Dhaka National Press Club, Bangladesh. Many famous authors and reporters were at the inauguration to celebrate and wish to poet Sayeeda Sharmin.
In 2010, Sharmin received an Honourable Award for her excellency in poetry in Bangladesh. Sharmin’s poetry books were translated in many different languages: English, Bangla , Spanish, French, Italy. Sharmin’s poetry also translated to different languages , English, Bangla, French, Italy, Spanish , Arabic, Hindi, Tamil, Korean, Urdu etc.
In 2022, Sharmin published a Bengali Sonnet book from Bangladesh publisher Mizan Publisher. Sharmin’s sonnet book According to research Sharmin is the first female writer who publish a sonnet book in Bangladesh and may be the second author to publish a sonnet book in Bangladesh after Honourable Michael Madhusudan Dutt. Sharmin wrote her sonnet in the style of Michael Madhusudan poetry and the name of her sonnet book is called “Koshtter Kashida” in the language of Bangla. She published 30 books but notable among the books of poetry are in Bangla language “Jochonay Camouflage”, “Megher Mridonge”, “Antarer Antarale”, Sonnet book-“Koshtter Kashida”, for children poetry book— “Chotoder Chora KabitarAdda”, Golp—“Payel Er Nil Kostto”, Novel— “Mou Erto Kono Aprath Chilona”, Lyrics— “Bangla Ganer Lyrics”. Notable among the English books are - "The Collection of Darood Sharif ", “Frozen Pain”, “The Biography Of The Majestic Women".
Manuscript of Trouble
I can't arrange my dreams at all
All the sorrows come and go randomly
My whole body is like a manuscript of suffering
So no hopes grows in my heart anymore
Only sorrow after sorrow comes every day
In the middle of the night chest sounds like a bat
And then the mountains of my fatigue
finding shelter my all the neurones their bed in my body
And from the basal ganglia of my skull
Then the words of the poem came out in procession
The words of each poem come as representations of suffering
And sorrow comes out in the middle of my pen with a gurgling sound
Sometimes my poems can't be born
Short-lived, it remained in the middle of the cortex of my brain
I stood in the middle of the firing squad
I killed them one by one with the bullets of my pride
Yet I see that they do not die
I knelt down and apologized to them
Forgive me, forgive me, forgive me
Poetries gave me a crew smile
and said it's not so easy to die.
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Author/ Poet Sayeeda Sharmin
