Fayaz Alam
Novelist, essayist and poet — writing in Bengali and English across newspapers, little magazines, podcasts and the long quiet hours in between.
The River of Words
Scroll on — there is always another piece, another evening, another sentence still being written.
The Quiet Revolution of Reading
In an age of infinite scroll, the act of reading a single page becomes radical — a small uprising against forgetting.
নদীর কাছে ফেরা
প্রতিটি মানুষের ভেতরে একটা নদী থাকে — সেই নদীর কাছে ফেরাই আসলে লেখা।
Letters from a Hill Town
The fog lifts at noon, and with it, an old conversation resumes between the pines and the postman.
ভাঙা চাঁদ ও অন্যান্য গল্প
ভাঙা চাঁদ কি কেবল আকাশের? নাকি প্রতিটি ঘরের কোণে একটা করে চাঁদ ভেঙে পড়ে থাকে?
The Long Sentence — Ep. 12: On Reading Slowly
A conversation about why slow reading might be the most political act of our time.
On Translating Silence
Some sentences arrive in a language that has no name. The translator's first task is to learn that language.
চায়ের দোকানে দর্শন
এক কাপ চায়ে যত জীবনদর্শন পাওয়া যায়, তত গ্রন্থাগারেও না।
The Architecture of a Sentence
A good sentence is a building you can live inside — load-bearing verbs, windows of clauses, a roof of rhythm.
Reading at Granta Series, London
An evening of new work in English with a brief Bengali coda.
Where the Writing Lives
Writings
Articles, essays and columns published across newspapers and little magazines, in Bengali and English.
Novels
Three novels of memory, geography and quiet hauntings — with a fourth currently being written.
Poetry
Short poems written in two languages, often in the margins of longer days.
Podcasts
Conversations on reading, translation and the craft of attention.
Events
Festivals, readings, retreats — every place a writing borrows a room.
Bio
A short life, told briefly — for those who like to know whose hand wrote the page.
To write is to keep a window open in a house no one visits anymore — and to be surprised, again and again, by who walks in.
Where to Find Him
All events →Dhaka Lit Fest 2026
Bangla Academy, Dhaka · Panel: The Future of the Bengali Novel
Jaipur Literature Festival
Diggi Palace, Jaipur · Reading & In-Conversation
Kolkata Book Fair — কলকাতা বইমেলা
Central Park, Kolkata · Book signing: অপরাহ্নের ঘড়ি
Granta Reading Series
London Review Bookshop · Featured Reader