Humayun Ahmed

Humayun Ahmed was a Bangladeshi writer, dramatist, screenwriter and filmmaker. Ahmed got his breakthrough with his debut novel Nondito Noroke in 1972. He wrote over 200 fiction and nonfiction books, all of which were bestsellers in Bangladesh. Ahmeds writing style is characterized as magical realism. Ahmeds 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.

Ahmed was born in Kutubpur, Mymensingh to Foyzur Rahman Ahmed and Ayesha Foyez . Foyzur served as a subdivisional police officer in Pirojpur District and was killed during the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971. In 2011, politician Delwar Hossain Sayeedi was put on trial for the killing but was acquitted of the charge in 2013 for lack of evidence. Humayuns brother, Muhammad Zafar Iqbal, is a writer and academician. Another brother, Ahsan Habib, became a cartoonist. He had three sisters Sufia Haider, Momtaz Shahid and Rukhsana Ahmed.

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