Imdadul Haq Milan | |
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| ইমদাদুল হক মিলন | |
 Milan in 2015 | |
| Born | 8 September 1955 |
| Nationality | Bangladeshi |
| Education | BA |
| Alma mater | Jagannath College |
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| Awards | Bangla Academy Literary Award, Ekushey Padak |
Imdadul Haq Milan (born 8 September 1955) [1] is a Bangladeshi novelist and Journalist. He was editor of the daily newspaper Kaler Kantho . [2] He is the recipient of Bangla Academy Literary Award in 1992 [3] and Ekushey Padak in 2019. [4]
Born in Bikrampur, Milan spent his childhood with his maternal grandmother. [5] He then moved to Gendaria in Dhaka. He wrote his first story Bondhu in 1973. Bangla Academy's Uttaradhikar magazine published his first novel Jabojjibon. [5] Milan graduated from Jagannath College. [1]
As of February 2019, Milan has published over 200 books. [6]
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