While he has dabbled in short fiction, he has always thought of himself as a novelist since he likes long stories and is yet to master the art of brevity. Apart from his writing, he also does some reviewing for several English papers in Dhaka. Hossain still reads a lot especially while stuck in traffic which in Bangladesh can be quite epic that he can have up to an hour of reading time while on a commute. He was lucky to read English books from a very young age given that such were very hard to come by in Bangladesh. His first love was David Eddings’ “Belgariad,” which he remembers reading and rereading over the years.
Saad Hossain has always loved fantasy and science fiction and read a lot of the genre from his elementary school library. His short fiction has been featured in “Apex Book World of Science Fiction” and “A Djinn Falls in Love.” His third novel “The Ghurka and the Lord of Tuesday” was published in 2019 and is a post-apocalyptic story. He followed that up with “Djinn City” a science and fantasy fiction novel. His debut novel was “Escape from Baghdad,” an account of the Iraqi War that he believes was the biggest war of our generation. Hossain has said that writing is a skill that comes with practice and is something that can also become addictive. However, writing is an urge that he had to satisfy at some point given that he has always been a very creative person and he finds it therapeutic. While he has recently found success with his writing endeavors, he has a full-time job in manufacturing and engineering.
Some of these jobs included running a restaurant, making rope, and even digging holes. In his early days as an author, there was very little interest in his writing and he was forced to work a variety of jobs. He went to the University of Virginia from where he studied Commerce and English literature which he says is one of the most impractical combinations ever. Saad Hossain is a black comedy, science fiction, and fantasy author from Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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