Akhteruzzaman Elias

Akhteruzzaman Elias was born on 12 February 1943 in the house of his maternal uncle, in Gaibandha district; his father, a leader of the Muslim League, sat in the provincial assembly. After graduating in Bengali from the University of Dhaka in 1964, he taught at Jagannath College until 1983, was deputy director of primary education and vice-principal of the College of Music, then headed the Bengali department of Dhaka College. He won the Bangla Academy Prize in 1983 and the Ananda Prize in 1996. He died of cancer in Dhaka on 4 January 1997 and was posthumously awarded the Ekushey Padak.

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• Novelচিলেকোঠার সেপাইAkhteruzzaman Elias · 1987not translated into EnglishLiterature