Niaz Zaman is a retired academic, writer, translator, and publisher. She has edited several anthologies, including ‘Selected Stories from Bangladesh’, ‘1971 and After’, and ‘The Escape and Other Stories’. Her study of the Partition, ‘A Divided Legacy: The Partition in Selected Novels of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh’, won the Atwar Hussain Award of the Asiatic Society of Bangladesh and the National Archives Award. In 2025, she received the Ekushey Padak for her contribution to education. Her other awards include the Bangla Academy Award for Translation (2016), the Anannya Sahitya Puroshkar (2013), and the UPL award for Prolific Author (2018).