Sandeep Kumar Mishra from India, a poet, artist, editor and lecturer, is among the top ten poets from around the world, who has been selected to be featured in
Tree Without Roots, Syed Waliullah s translation or transcreation of his novel,
Lal Salu.
Chander Amabasya, and
Cry, River, Cry, Osman Jamal s translation of
Kando Nadi Kando, followed. It has also published single writer anthologies of poetry and short stories. In 2011, it published a Bangladeshi edition of Mirza Ihtesamuddin s
The Wonders of Vilayet, translated by Kaiser Haq.
Considering the importance of translation, the University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh (ULAB) launched the Dhaka Translation Center (DTC) in 2013 with the translation of three short stories by Hasan Azizul Huq. It organised workshops, and Bengal Lights Books (BLB), a sister concern, co-published a collection of stories emerging from those workshops: