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Abdus Selim
Abdus Selim (born 19 September 1945)[1] is a Bangladeshi academic, writer and translator. He was awarded Bangla Academy Literary Award in 2015 in the translation category and Shaheed Muneir Chowdhury Award in 2010 for his contribution to theatre.[2][3] He is currently a faculty member of the Department of English Language-Literature at Central Women's University.[4] BackgroundSelim completed his bachelor's and master's in English from the University of Dhaka.[3] He got his breakthrough in translation work by translating Bertolt Brecht's Life of Galileo in 1975 on a request by film director Masihuddin Shaker and was published in 1979.[5] [6] Nagorik Natya Sampradaya theatre group staged the play under the direction of Ataur Rahman in 1988.[5] CareerSelim taught at the teachers' training college in Libya as well as in England, United States and Germany.[3] He occasionally teaches the Aesthetics of Theatre at Ramendu Majumdar's theatre school.[3] He served as the vice-president and an executive body member of International Theatre Institute.[3] He was a faculty member of the English Department at North South University.[3] Majority of the drama plays translated by Selim have been directed by Ataur Rahman.[5] Translation works
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