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HUMAYUN-BIRTHDAY
Humayun Ahmed’s 71th birthday tomorrow
DHAKA, Nov 12, 2018 (BSS) – The 71th birthday of Humayun Ahmed, a great
Bangladeshi writer, dramatist, screenwriter and filmmaker will be observed
tomorrow in a befitting manner.
Marking his birthday, Channel-i is going to organize a fair ‘Humayun
Mela’ on the television channel premises in Tejgaon area in the capital.
Onno Prokash Publication will also distribute “Humayun Ahmed Award” on
this occasion.
Humayun Ahmed, son of late Foyzur Rahman Ahmed and Ayesha Foyez, was
born on November 13, 1948 at Kutubpur in Mymensingh. He died on July 19, 2012
at a hospital in New York, the USA.
In his childhood, Ahmed lived in Sylhet, Comilla, Chittagong, Bogura,
Dinajpur and Panchagarh where his father was on official assignment.
Ahmed studied in Chittagong Collegiate School. He eventually passed
Secondary School Certificate (SSC) examination from Bogura Zilla School in
1967 and was listed as second in merit by the Rajshahi Education Board.
He passed Higher Secondary School Certificate (HSC) examination from
Dhaka College in 1969.
Ahmed completed his graduation and Masters degree in Chemistry from
Dhaka University. He did his Ph D in polymer chemistry from North Dakota
State University.
He worked as a lecturer at the Bangladesh Agricultural University and
later joined Dhaka University.
His breakthrough was his debut novel Nondito Naroke published in 1972.
He wrote over 200 fiction and non-fiction books, all of which were
bestsellers in Bangladesh.
His books were the top sellers at the Ekushey Book Fair during the 1990s
and 2000s. He won the Bangla Academy Award and the Ekushey Padak award for
his contribution to Bengali literature.
In the early 1990s, Ahmed emerged as a filmmaker. He went on to make a
total of eight films – each based on his own novels. He received six
Bangladesh National Film Awards in different categories for the films
Daruchini Dwip, Aguner Poroshmoni and Ghetuputra Kamola.
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