Syed Shamsul Huq

Syed Shamsul Huq was born on 27 December 1935 in Kurigram, the eldest of the eight children of a homeopathic doctor. He left in 1951 for Bombay as an assistant to the filmmaker Kamal Amrohi, returned the following year, studied English at the University of Dhaka without completing his degree, and wrote in every genre, poetry, novel, theatre, song, which earned him the nickname sabyasachi. The youngest winner of the Bangla Academy Award, in 1966, he received the Ekushey Padak in 1984 and the Independence Day Award in 2000. He died in Dhaka on 27 September 2016.

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• Theatreপায়ের আওয়াজ পাওয়া যায়Syed Shamsul Huq · 1976not translated into EnglishLiterature