Farida Majid

Farida Majid (July 27, 1942 – September 28, 2021; Bengali: ফরিদা মজিদ) was a Bangladeshi poet, translator, and academic.

Part of the first generation of Bangladeshi writers producing English-language work, Majid was an influential member of the London literary scene in the 1970s, when she ran the independent Salamander press. She then spent two decades as a professor of language and culture in New York before returning to Bangladesh in her later years.