With the pace of a thriller and the unforgettable characters of Greek tragedy, this keenly observed story of a family under the rule of a terrifying matriarch is one of the most unusual, addictive and captivating novels I've read in a very long time’ ―Tahmima Anam, author of A Golden Age and The Good Muslim
Leesa Gazi
Leesa Gazi is a British-Bangladeshi writer, actor, scriptwriter and filmmaker. She’s also the joint artistic director of a London based arts company, Komola Collective. She was the scriptwriter and performer on Six Seasons and A Golden Age at the Southbank Centre, London. Gazi’s recent play Aleya Twist is a Bengali adaptation of the British classic Oliver Twist. It has reimagined Oliver Twist as a young girl. Gazi also wrote, directed and produced several CVE (Counter Violence Extremism) short films for a UK-based Counter-Extremism think tank in 2017 and 2019. Gazi was the concept-developer, co-writer and performer on Birangona: Women of War, nominated for The Offies 2014, which she later developed into the documentary film called Rising Silence, on the lives of rape survivors in the aftermath of the Liberation War of Bangladesh. The film won the Best Documentary Award 2019 at the Dhaka International Film Festival, the 2019 Moondance Winner in the feature documentary category (USA), the Asian Media Award for Best Investigation 2019 (UK), the Award Of Merit 2020 by the Accolade Competition (USA), the Best Documentary Feature and Best Message at the 2020 Top Indie Film Awards (Japan) and the Best Feature—Foreign 2020 at the Queen Palm International Film Festival (USA)
Leesa Gazi