Hasnat Abdul Hai

Hasnat Abdul Hai was born in Calcutta in 1937, in 1939 according to other sources, into a family originally from Kasba, in the district of Brahmanbaria. He studied economics in Dhaka, at the University of Washington and at the London School of Economics, then development studies at Cambridge, taught for two years at his home university and in 1965 entered the civil service of Pakistan; he retired in 2000 as secretary to the government of Bangladesh. A novelist, short-story writer and author of travel narratives, he received the Bangla Academy Prize for the short story and the Ekushey Padak in 1994.

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• NovelনভেরাHasnat Abdul Hai · 1995not translated into EnglishLiterature