Farah Ghuznavi is a Bangladeshi writer, development worker, journalist and translator. She studied at the

London School of Economics , mottoeng = To understand the causes of things , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £240.8 million (2021) , budget = £391.1 milli ...

. Ghuznavi has worked for the Grameen Bank, the

United Nations Development Programme The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)french: Programme des Nations unies pour le développement, PNUD is a United Nations agency tasked with helping countries eliminate poverty and achieve sustainable economic growth and human dev ...

, Christian Aid UK and other non-governmental organizations. She is a regular contributor to The Star weekend magazine. Her story "Judgement Day" was highly commended at the 2010

Commonwealth Short Story Competition Commonwealth Foundation presented a number of prizes between 1987 and 2011. The main award was called the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and was composed of two prizes: the Best Book Prize (overall and regional) was awarded from 1987 to 2011; the Best ...

. Her story "Getting There" placed second in the short story competition of the Oxford Gender Equality Festival. Her stories have appeared in a number of anthologies and literary magazines published in the United States, the United Kingdom, Singapore and Bangladesh. She was editor for the ''Lifelines'' anthology published in India. A collection of her stories ''Fragments of Riversong'' was published in 2013. Ghuznavi writes her stories in English.

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