Hassanal Abdullah
Hassanal Abdullah is a Bangladeshi-American poet and the author of more than fifty books in various genres. Recently his Collected Poems (in Bengali) has been published in two volumes (560 pages each). A sonnet form innovator and the author of an epic, Nakshatra O Manusher Prochhad, Abdullah received a number of awards including the Homer European Medal for Poetry and Art (2016).
Under the Thin Layers of Light has been his most widely read poetry collection translated into several languages. Previously, he edited Twentieth Century Bengali Poetry (2015) in Bengali text and edited and translated Contemporary Bangladeshi Poetry (2019).
In 2023 he edited the World Poetry Anthology, celebrating the 25th anniversary of Shabdaguccha, an international bilingual poetry magazine edited by him. All poems published there previously appeared in Shabdaguccha from 1998 to 2023.
