Mashrur Arefin

Mashrur Arefin
Mashrur Arefin in 2021
Native name
মাসরুর আরেফিন
BornS M Mashrur Arefin
(1969-10-09) 9 October 1969
Barishal, Bangladesh
OccupationWriter and banker
LanguageBengali
NationalityBangladeshi
Alma mater
Period1990–present
Notable worksIshwardi Mayor O Mule er Golpo (Poetry),
August Abchaya (The Eclipse of August, 2019),
Prithibi Elomelo Sokalbelay (Poetry),
Althusser (Novel),
Underground (Novel),
Ariyal Kha (Novel),
Franz Kafka Golpo-Shomogro (Translation), Eliad (Translation)
Notable awardsBRAC Bank-Samakal Literature Award, Gemcon Shahitya Puroshkar for August Abchaya (Novel, 2019), IFIC Bank Sahitya Puraskar 2019 for August Abchaya

Mashrur Arefin (born 9 October 1969) is a Bangladeshi writer, novelist, poet, translator and banker. He is known for his Bengali translation of Homer’s Iliad and Franz Kafka's stories, and his novels, August Abchchaya (The Eclipse of August, 2019) and Althusser (2020). He received the BRAC Bank-Samakal Literature Award for his translation of Franz Kafka's stories in 2013, he won the Gemcon Shahitya Puroshkar 2020 for his first novel August Abchhaya (The Eclipse of August). and he received IFIC Bank Literary Award 2019 for the novel August Abchaya.

Mashrur Arefin writes article about literature and literary piece on newspaper and literary supplements.