Jahanara Imam

Jahanara Imam (Bangla: জাহানারা ইমাম) was a Bangladeshi writer and political activist. She is most widely remembered for her efforts to bring those accused of committing war crimes in the Bangladesh Liberation War to trial. She was known as "Shaheed Janani" (Mother of Martyrs).

She obtained her Bachelor's Degree in 1947 from Lady Brabourne College of Calcutta University and a Master's Degree from University of Dhaka. She took teaching as her career.

After Bangladesh achieved independence, Jahanara Imam started her literary career. In 1986 she published her wartime diary একাত্তরের দিনগুলি (The days of Seventy One). Publication of this book was a seminal event in the history of Bangladesh. It proved to be a catalyst for the renewal of faith in

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Begum Roquia Sakhawat Hussain, popularly known as Begum Rokeya, was born in 1880 in the village of Pairabondh, Mithapukur, Rangpur, in what was then the British Indian Empire and is now Bangladesh.

Begum Rokeya was an inspiring figure who contributed much to the struggle to liberate women from the bondage of social malaises. Her life can be seen in the context of other social reformers within what was then India. To raise popular consciousness, especially among women, she wrote a number of articles, stories and novels, mostly in Bengali.

Rokeya used humor, irony, and satire to focus attention on the injustices faced by Bengali-speaking Muslim women. She criticized oppressive social customs forced upon women that were based upon a corrupted ve
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R.C. Majumdar

Ramesh Chandra Majumdar (known as R. C. Majumdar; 4 December 1888 – 11 February 1980) was a historian and professor of Indian history.

Born at Khandarpara, in Faridpur District (now in Bangladesh) on 4 December 1888, to Haladhar Majumdar and Bidhumukhi, Majumdar passed his childhood in poverty. In 1905, he passed his Entrance Examination from Ravenshaw College, Cuttack. In 1907, he passed F.A. with first class scholarship from Ripon College (now Surendranath College) and joined Presidency College, Calcutta. Graduating in B.A.(Honours) in 1909 and MA from Calcutta University in 1911, he won the Premchand Roychand scholarship from the University of Calcutta for his research work in 1913.

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Rabindranath Tagore

Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913 "because of his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse, by which, with consummate skill, he has made his poetic thought, expressed in his own English words, a part of the literature of the West."

Tagore modernised Bengali art by spurning rigid classical forms and resisting linguistic strictures. His novels, stories, songs, dance-dramas, and essays spoke to topics political and personal. Gitanjali (Song Offerings), Gora (Fair-Faced), and Ghare-Baire (The Home and the World) are his best-known works, and his verse, short stories, and novels were acclaimed—or panned—for their lyricism, colloquialism, naturalism, and unnatural contemplation. His compositions were chosen by two nations as nat
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Manik Bandopadhyay

Manik Bandopadhyay (Bengali: মানিক বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়) was an Indian Bengali novelist and is considered one of the leading lights of modern Bangla fiction. During a short lifespan of forty-eight years, plagued simultaneously by illness and financial crisis, he produced 36 novels and 177 short-stories. His important works include Padma Nadir Majhi (The Boatman on The River Padma, 1936) and Putul Nacher Itikatha (The Puppet's Tale, 1936), Shahartali (The Suburbia, 1941) and Chatushkone (The Quadrilateral, 1948).
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Shahaduz Zaman

Shahaduz Zaman (Bangla: শাহাদুজ্জামান) is a Medical Anthropologist, currently working with Newcastle University, UK. He writes short stories, novels, and non-fiction. He has published 25 books, and his debut collection ‘Koyekti Bihbol Galpa’ won the Mowla Brothers Literary Award in 1996. He also won Bangla Academy Literary Award in 2016.
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Syed Waliullah

Syed Waliullah was born on 15 August 1922 at Sholashahar in Chittagong. After completing his Bachelor’s from Ananda Mohan College in Mymensingh, he enrolled at Calcutta University but did not complete his Master’s. Proficient in both Bangla and English, he worked for the Statesman during 1945-1947. After the Partition, he moved to Dhaka and joined Radio Pakistan as assistant news editor. In 1950 he was posted to Radio Pakistan, Karachi. From 1951 to 1960 he served as press attache at Pakistan missions in New Delhi, Sydney, Jakarta and London. It was in Sydney that Waliullah met Anne-Marie Thibaud, whom he later married and who translated Lal Shalu into French. In 1960 Waliullah moved to Paris where he served as first secretary at the Pakist
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Muhammed Zafar Iqbal

মুহম্মদ জাফর ইকবাল (Bengali)

Muhammed Zafar Iqbal (Bengali: মুহম্মদ জাফর ইকবাল) is one of the most famous Bangladeshi author of Science-Fiction and Children's Literature ever to grace the Bengali literary community since the country's independence in 1971. He is a professor of Computer Science & Engineering at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST). Before that, Iqbal worked as a research scientist in Bell Communication Research for six years until 1994.

Birth and Family Background:
Iqbal was born on 23 December 1952 in Sylhet. His father, Foyzur Rahman Ahmed, was a police officer. In his childhood, he traveled various part of Bangladesh, because of his father's transferring job. Zafar Iqbal was encouraged by his father for writ
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Syed Mujtaba Ali

Syed Mujtaba Ali (Bengali: সৈয়দ মুজতবা আলী) was a Bengali author, academician, scholar and linguist.

Syed Mujtaba Ali was born in Karimganj district (in present-day Assam, India). In 1919, he was inspired by Rabindranath Tagore and started writing to the poet. In 1921, Mujtaba joined the Indian freedom struggle and left his school in Sylhet. He went to Visva-Bharati University in Santiniketan and graduated in 1926. He was among the first graduates of the university. Later, he moved to Kabul to work in the education department (1927–1929). From 1929 to 1932 he studied at the universities in Berlin, London, Paris and Bonn. He earned Ph.D. degree from University of Bonn with a dissertation on comparative religious studies in Khojas in 1932.
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Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay

This author has secondary bangla profile-বিভূতিভূষণ বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়.

Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay (Bangla: বিভূতিভূষণ বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়) was an Indian Bangali author and one of the leading writers of modern Bangla literature. His best known work is the autobiographical novel, Pather Panchali: Song of the Road which was later adapted (along with Aparajito, the sequel) into the Apu Trilogy films, directed by Satyajit Ray.

The 1951 Rabindra Puraskar, the most prestigious literary award in the West Bengal state of India, was posthumously awarded to Bibhutibhushan for his novel ইছামতী.
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Zahir Raihan

Zahir Raihan (Bangla: জহির রায়হান) was a Bangladeshi novelist, writer and filmmaker. He is perhaps best known for his documentary Stop Genocide made during the Bangladesh Liberation War.

He was an active worker of the Language Movement of 1952. The effect of Language Movement was so high on him that he made his legendary film Jibon Theke Neya based on it. In 1971 he joined in the Liberation War of Bangladesh and created documentary films on this great event.

He disappeared on January 30, 1972 while trying to locate his brother, the famous writer Shahidullah Kaiser, who was captured and killed by the Pakistan army. Evidences have been found that he was killed by some armed Bihari collaborators and disguised soldiers of Pakistan Army.
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Ahmed Sofa

Ahmed Sofa (Bangla: আহমদ ছফা) was a well-known Bangladeshi philosopher, poet, novelist, writer, critic, translator. Sofa was renowned for his intellectual righteousness as well as his holistic approach to the understanding of social dynamics and international politics. His career as a writer began in the 1960s. He never married. On 28 July 2001, Ahmed Sofa died in a hospital in Dhaka. He was buried in Martyred Intellectuals' Graveyard.

Sofa helped establishing Bangladesh Lekhak Shibir (Bangladesh Writers' Camp) in 1970 to organize liberal writers in order to further the cause of the progressive movement.

Ahmed Sofa's outspoken personality and bold self-expression brought him into the limelight. He was never seen hankering after fame in a tri
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Abu Ishaque

Abu Ishaque (Abu Bashar Mohammad Ishaque; Bangla: আবু ইসহাক) was a renowned modern Bangladeshi author and a famous novelist. Ishaque is often categorized with those who wrote the least and showed the best. Three novels - one of which is a detective novel, two collections of short stories and the voluminous Samokalin Bangla Bhashar Obhidhan. He comes forth as a major novelist in contemporary literature with the publication of সূর্য দীঘল বাড়ি [Surya-Dighal Bari, that means A Cursed House] written at the age of only twenty one and till now its mighty presence is felt by readers of Bangla fiction. This was the first successful novel in Bangladeshi literature.

Literary awards:
Bangla Academy Literary Award (1963)
Ekushey Padak (1997)
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Humayun Ahmed

Humayun Ahmed (Bengali: হুমায়ূন আহমেদ; 13 November 1948 – 19 July 2012) was a Bangladeshi author, dramatist, screenwriter, playwright and filmmaker. He was the most famous and popular author, dramatist and filmmaker ever to grace the cultural world of Bangladesh since its independence in 1971. Dawn referred to him as the cultural legend of Bangladesh. Humayun started his journey to reach fame with the publication of his novel Nondito Noroke (In Blissful Hell) in 1972, which remains one of his most famous works. He wrote over 250 fiction and non-fiction books, all of which were bestsellers in Bangladesh, most of them were number one bestsellers of their respective years by a wide margin. In recognition to the works of Humayun, Times of Indi
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Humayun Azad

Humayun Azad (Bangla: হুমায়ূন আজাদ) was a Bangladeshi author and scholar. He earned BA degree in Bengali language and literature from University of Dhaka. He obtained his PhD in linguistics from the University of Edinburgh in 1976. He later served as a faculty member of the department of Bengali language and literature at the University of Dhaka. His early career produced works on Bengali linguistics, notably syntax. He was regarded as a leading linguist of the Bangla language.

Towards the end of 1980s, he started to write newspaper column focusing on contemporary socio-political issues. Through his writings of 1990s, he established himself as a freethinker and appeared to be an agnostic. In his works, he openly criticized religious extremi
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Humayun Azad

Humayun Azad (Bangla: হুমায়ূন আজাদ) was a Bangladeshi author and scholar. He earned BA degree in Bengali language and literature from University of Dhaka. He obtained his PhD in linguistics from the University of Edinburgh in 1976. He later served as a faculty member of the department of Bengali language and literature at the University of Dhaka. His early career produced works on Bengali linguistics, notably syntax. He was regarded as a leading linguist of the Bangla language.

Towards the end of 1980s, he started to write newspaper column focusing on contemporary socio-political issues. Through his writings of 1990s, he established himself as a freethinker and appeared to be an agnostic. In his works, he openly criticized religious extremi
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Syed Shamsul Haque

Syed Shamsul Haque (Bangla: সৈয়দ শামসুল হক) was a Bangladeshi poet and writer. Haq lived alternately in Dhaka and London. He wrote poetry, fiction, plays - mostly in verse and essays. He, the youngest writer to be honored with Bangla Academy Award, achieved it at the age of 29. He was honored with Ekushey Podok in 1984.

(সব্যসাচী লেখক সৈয়দ শামসুল হক ১৯৩৫ সালের ২৭ ডিসেম্বর কুড়িগ্রামে জন্মেছিলেন। বর্ণাঢ্য লেখকজীবনের অধিকারী সৈয়দ হক। কবিতা, ছোটগল্প, উপন্যাস, কাব্যনাট্য, চলচ্চিত্রের চিত্রনাট্য, চলচ্চিত্রের গান – যা লিখেছেন সবকিছুতেই পেয়েছেন জনপ্রিয়তা, সাফল্য।

মাত্র ২৯ বছর বয়সে ১৯৬৪ সালে বাংলা একাডেমি পুরস্কার পান সৈয়দ হক। এখন পর্যন্ত বাংলা একাডেমি পুরস্কার পাওয়া সর্বকনিষ্ঠ লেখক তিনি।

সৈয়দ হকের লেখালেখির শুরু তাঁর শৈশবেই। ম্যাট্রিক পরীক্ষার আগে লি
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Selina Hossain

Selina Hossain (Bangla: সেলিনা হোসেন) is a famous novelist in Bangladesh. She was honored with Bangla Academy Award in 1980. she was the director of Bangla Academy from 1997 to 2004.

সেলিনা হোসেন (জন্ম: ১৯৪৭) বাংলাদেশের অগ্রগণ্য কথাসাহিত্যিকদের অন্যতম। তিনি রাজশাহী বিশ্ববিদ্যালয় থেকে বাংলা ভাষা ও সাহিত্যে বি এ অনার্স পাশ করলেন ১৯৬৭ সালে। এম এ পাশ করেন ১৯৬৮ সালে। তাঁর কর্মজীবন শুরু হয় ১৯৭০ সালে বাংলা একাডেমীর গবেষণা সহকারী হিসেবে। তিনি ১৯৯৭ সালে বাংলা একাডেমীর প্রথম মহিলা পরিচালক হন। ২০০৪ সালের ১৪ জুন চাকুরি থেকে অবসর নেন।

গল্প ও উপন্যাসে সিদ্ধহস্ত। এ পর্যন্ত ৭টি গল্প সংকলন, ২০টি উপন্যাস, ৫টি শিশুতোষ গল্প, ৫টি প্রবন্ধের বই প্রকাশিত হয়েছে। এছাড়াও সম্পাদনা করেছেন বেশ কিছু বই। সাহিত্যে অবদানের স্বীকৃতি হিসাবে প্রাপ্ত উল্লেখযোগ্য পুরস্কারের মধ
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Munier Choudhury

Munier Chowdhury (Bangla: মুনীর চৌধুরী), born in 1925 at Manikganj, Dhaka, hailed from Noakhali, was a Bangladeshi educationist, playwright, literary critic and political dissident. He's the brother of Kabir Chowdhury.

Munier studied English literature for his Bachelors degree (with honors, 1946) and Masters (1947) at the Dhaka University. In 1954, he completed a second Masters degree, summa cum laude, in Bengali. In 1958, he obtained another Masters in Linguistics from Harvard University. He joined the Dhaka University in 1950 and taught both in English and Bengali language departments between 1950 and 1971. Students flocked to his class, many from other departments, as he lectured in his inimitable fashion on Mir Mosharraf Hossain, Bankim
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Shakti Chattopadhyay

শক্তি চট্টোপাধ্যায়-এর জন্ম ২৫ নভেম্বর ১৯৩৩, বহড়ু, চব্বিশ পরগনা। শৈশবে পিতৃহীন। বহড়ুতে মাতামহের কাছে ও বাগবাজারে মাতুলালয়ে বড় হন। পড়াশোনা: বহড়ু হাইস্কুল, মহারাজা কাশিমবাজার স্কুল, প্রেসিডেন্সি কলেজ; যাদবপুর বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়ে তুলনামূলক সাহিত্যে অধ্যয়ন অসমাপ্ত। বুদ্ধদেব বসু সম্পাদিত ‘কবিতা’ পত্রিকায় ‘যম’ কবিতা লিখে (১৯৫৬) সাহিত্যজগতে প্রবেশ। যুক্ত ছিলেন কৃত্তিবাস পত্রিকার সঙ্গে। ‘কবিতা সাপ্তাহিকী’ পত্রিকা প্রকাশ করে আলোড়ন তুলেছিলেন কবিতাজগতে৷ প্রণীত, অনূদিত-সম্পাদিত কবিতা ও গদ্যগ্রন্থের সংখ্যা শতাধিক, তা ছাড়া অজস্র অগ্রন্থিত রচনা ছড়িয়ে আছে পত্রপত্রিকায়। পেয়েছেন আনন্দ পুরস্কার, সাহিত্য অকাদেমি পুরস্কার, সম্বলপুর বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়ের গঙ্গাধর মেহের পুরস্কার, মরণোত্তর রবীন্দ্র পুরস্কার। জীবিকাক্ষেত্রে সাংবাদিক হিসেবে যুক্ত ছিলেন আনন্দবাজা
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