Humayun Ahmed

Humayun Ahmed was born on 13 November 1948 in Mohanganj, in the Netrokona district, the son of Faizur Rahman Ahmed, a police officer and writer whom the Pakistani army killed in 1971. He attended many schools as his father was transferred from post to post, studied chemistry at the University of Dhaka, took a doctorate in polymer chemistry in the United States and taught in Dhaka until the mid-nineties. He became the most widely read writer in the country, wrote for television and cinema, and died of cancer in New York on 19 July 2012.

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• CinemaAguner PoroshmoniHumayun Ahmed · 1994Cinema