Shahid Akhand

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Shahid Akhand
শহীদ আখন্দ
Born1935 (age 8788)
Passdarilla, Nandail, Mymensingh
NationalityBangladeshi

Shahid Akhand (born 21 January 1935) is a Bangladeshi author and novelist of Bengali literature.

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Biography

Akhand was born on 21 January 1935 in Mymensingh district. He completed a master's degree in Bengali at Dhaka University in 1959. [1]

He began writing in the second decade after the Partition of Bengal (1947). [2] His novel Panna Holo Sobuj depicted urban middle-class life. [2] [3]

In 1978, he won a Bangla Academy Literary Award for a short story. [4] In 2008, a play adapted from his novel Bhetorer Manush was screened on Bangladesh Television. [5]

He lives in Bangladesh, and has been blind for a few years. He has three daughters and a son.[ citation needed ]

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Novels

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