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About the Author
Leesa Gazi is a Bangladeshi British author, theater practitioner, award-winning filmmaker, and joint artistic director of the London-based arts organization Komola Collective. She has dedicated her career to presenting stories from women's perspectives. Multiple plays written and translated by Gazi toured nationally and internationally. She was the cowriter and performer of the play Birangona: Women of War, nominated for the Offies (UK), which she later developed into the documentary feature Rising Silence, which sheds light on the lives of sexual violence survivors in the aftermath of the Bangladesh Liberation War. Westland Books published Good Girls (previously titled Hellfire), an English translation of Gazi's critically acclaimed Bengali novel Rourob, translated by Shabnam Nadiya in 2020. She has written, performed, and created content for many prestigious venues and organizations, including Shakespeare's Globe, the BBC, TED Talks, Sadler's Wells, the Southbank Centre, and Akram Khan Company. Gazi has also written and directed several counterviolent extremism short films for a UK-based think tank. Currently, Gazi is completing her debut fiction film, Barir Naam Shahana (A House Named Shahana), which won FBR Winner 2021-Feature at the NFDC Film Bazaar.
Reviews
Praise for Good Girls "Gazi aids her brisk plotting with flashbacks that emphasize the family's abusive dynamics..." -Publishers Weekly "Written in lyrical prose, with nuanced characters, Gazi's first novel translated into English deftly unravels the complicated relationships between the sisters, their mother, and the secrets they've harbored." -Booklist "Taut, unsettling, and at times wickedly funny, this sly novel will hold you in its thrall until the very last page." -Ash Davidson, author of Damnation Spring
Book Information
ISBN 9781662514548
Author Leesa Gazi
Format Paperback
Page Count 192
Imprint AmazonCrossing
Publisher Amazon Publishing