Shamsur Rahman

Shamsur Rahman was born in Dhaka in 1929. A journalist, he began in 1957 at the Morning News, worked at Radio Pakistan, joined the Dainik Pakistan in 1964, which became the Dainik Bangla, and which he edited from 1977; he left it in 1987 to protest against the creation of a post of editor-in-chief that stripped him of his powers under Ershad. He published his first collection in 1960 and more than sixty in all. A defender of secularism, he escaped an assassination attempt at his home on 18 January 1999. He died on 17 August 2006.

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• Poetryবন্দী শিবির থেকেShamsur Rahman · 1972not translated into EnglishLiterature