Dilruba Z. Ara (born 20 November 1957) is a Swedish Bangladeshi writer,[1][2][3] novelist, artist, educator and translator.

Her father, Shahed Ali, was a Language Movement veteran, translator and Bangla Academy award-winning author of Gabriel's Wings.

[5] Her mother, Professor Chemon Ara, now retired, is also an acknowledged author and Language Movement veteran.

Published in Chattahoochee Review, Drunken Boat, Asia Writes, Democratic World Magazine, Swedish Institute, The Daily Star, Shipwrights Review Vista and in anthology.

Ara moved to Sweden in 1978 and has lived in the university town of Lund since 2007.