Today is the 83rd anniversary of the birth of one of the acclaimed fiction writers of Bangla language Mahmudul Haque.
Born at Barasat in British India on November 16, 1941, Mahmudul Haque moved to Dhaka in 1950.
Inspired by his teacher, writer and journalist Shahid Saber, the pen name of AKM Shahidullah, martyred in the War of Independence, Mahmudul Haque got diligently involved in literature and used to edit a literary magazine named 鈥楢gragami鈥�.
He emerged as a fiction writer in the mid-1960s. His Liberation War-based 1972 novel Jeeban Amar Bon, centring on the characters Khoka, Ranju, Murad and Yasin, focuses about life, society, politics, and history.
Mahmudul Haque鈥檚 novel on the partition of the Indian subcontinent under the header Anur Pathsala also earned him acclaim.
His literary works include Nirapad Tandra, Matir Jahaj, Kalo Baraf, Khelaghar, Chikkore Kabuk, Pratidin Ektai Rumal, Manush Manush Khela and Ashariri.
The fiction writer passed away in Dhaka on July 21, 2008.
