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Anisul Hoque is one of the renowned writers in Bangladesh. He is a novelist, poet, playwright and journalist. He is the author of more than 150 books including novels, collections of short stories and collections of poems. He has written screenplays of 3 feature-films. The film On the Wings of Dreams written by him won the Best Young Director award in Shanghai Film Festival. He was nominated for the best screen-play award in Asia Pacific Screen Awards 2014 for the film Television. He won Bangla Academy Award for literature in 2011. He is a fellow of International Writing Program, IWP, University of Iowa, USA. His works have been translated into English, Spanish, Japanese, Orya, Persian, Arabic and Hindi. HarperCollins published his novel Ballad of Ayesha. He is 54, lives in Dhaka, Bangladesh.