Moinul Ahsan Saber

Moinul Ahsan Saber
Saber
Native name	মঈনুল আহসান সাবের
Born	(1958-05-26) 26 May 1958 (age 66)
Occupation	Editor, writer
Nationality	Bangladeshi
Relatives	Ahsan Habib (father)

Moinul Ahsan Saber (born 26 May 1958) is a Bangladeshi fiction writer. He is the executive editor of weekly magazine Saptahik 2000, published from Dhaka. He also heads Dibya Prokash, a progressive publishing house in Bangladesh. He was awarded Bangla Academy Literary Award in 1996. ^[1] For his contribution to Bengali language and literature, the Bangladesh government awarded him the Ekushey Padak, the country's second highest civilian honor in 2019.

Early life and career

Saber's father, Ahsan Habib, was a poet. His sister Keya Chowdhury is a well-known Bangla reciter. Saber emerged as a writer and got breakthrough with the publication of his first novel Porasto Sahish in 1982.

Works

Books

• Porasto Sahish (The Defeated Horse-Keeper), 1982
• Aadmer Jonye Opeksha (Waiting for Adam), 1986
• Pathor Somoy (Frozen Time), 1989
• Char Torun Toruni (Four Teenage Boys and Girls), 1990
• Manush Jekhane Jai Na (Where Man Doesn't Go), 1990
• Dharabahik Kahini (A Continuous Story), 1992
• Opeksha (Waiting), 1992
• Tumi Amake Niye Jabe (You Will Take Me), 1993
• Kobej Lethel (Kobej, the Ruffian), 1993 ^[2]
• Prem O Protishodh (Love and Revenge), 1993
• Songshar Japon (Family Life), 1997

Television drama

• Pathor Somoy, Bangladesh Television

Film

• Liliputera Ber Hobe (screenplay based on Gulliver's Travels) ^[3]

References

1. পুরস্কারপ্রাপ্তদের তালিকা [Winners list] (in Bengali). Bangla Academy. Retrieved 23 August 2017.
2. Ifftakher Hossain (2 September 2005). "Moinul Ahsan Saber's Kobej Lethel". The Independent . Dhaka. Archived from the original on April 10, 2006.
3. "Liliputera Bara Hobe ends shooting". New Age. 28 April 2005. Archived from the original on 19 November 2005. Retrieved 30 June 2006.

External links

• Prem By Moinul Ahsan Saber