Abul Kashem Fazlul Haq

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Abul Kashem Fazlul Haq
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Native name
আবুল কাসেম ফজলুল হক
Born (1940-09-30) 30 September 1940 (age 84)
Pakundia Thana, Bengal Province, British India
OccupationProfessor, writer
LanguageBengali
CitizenshipBangladeshi
Notable awards Bangla Academy Literary Award (1981)
Children Faisal Abedin Deepan(Son)
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Abul Kashem Fazlul Haq (born 30 September 1940) is a Bangladeshi writer, essayist, translator, critic, columnist and activist. [1] He is a former professor of Bengali language and literature at the University of Dhaka. [2] [3] He is the convener of Rashtrabhasha Bangla Rokkha Komiti (State Language Bengali Protection Committee). [4] He received Bangla Academy Literary Award in 1981. [5] On 27 October 2024 the Interim government has appointed Abul Kashem Fazlul Haq as the new president of Bangla Academy. [6]

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Early life

Haq was born in Pakundia, Kishoreganj to Muhammad Abdul Hakim and Jahanara Khatun. His wife is Farida Pradhan. [7]

Haq passed the Entrance Examination from Mymensingh Zilla School in 1959. In 1961, he passed the Higher Secondary Certificate in Science from Ananda Mohan College. He graduated from the University of Dhaka in 1965 and completed his post-graduation from the same university in 1966. [1] [7]   While studying at Dhaka University, he came in contact with Munir Chowdhury, Ahmed Sharif, Humayun Azad, Nilima Ibrahim and was introduced to progressive ideas.

Career

Haq was a faculty member of the Department of Bengali at the University of Dhaka for four decades. He has been editing the literary magazine called Lokayata since 1982.

His son, Faisal Abedeen Deepan, who was a publisher, was murdered by a Jihadist group in 2015. [8]

Selected bibliography

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