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Renowned fiction writer of Bangla literature  Hasan Azizul Haque is no more

Renowned fiction writer of  contemporary Bangla literature  Hasan Azizul Haque passed away at the age of 82  (Inna lillahi wa inna ilaihi rajeun).

He breathed his last at his home in Rajshahi around 9:30 pm on Monday.

Rajshahi-2 (Sadar) MP Fazle Hasan Badshah confirmed this information .

Last Wednesday, Imtiaz Hasan, son of Hasan Azizul Haque and an associate professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Sciences at Rajshahi University, said his father was ill. According to the doctor’s advice, Hasan Azizul Haque was given saline and medicine. Besides, his ECG was done at home.

Hasan Azizul Haque was a professor of Philosophy at Rajshahi University.

Throughout over 50 years of his remarkable and prestigious literary career, Azizul has published short stories illustrating a uniquely exquisite form of literary language.

His stories thematically signify the utmost realistic portrayal of the suffering of farmers and working class people as well as the discrimination against working class women and their distress.

He also wrote about historic events and their realities focusing on the gruesome effects of the Partition of Bengal followed by an inhumane communal violence as well as Liberation War of Bangladesh and its aftermath.

Samudrer Swapna, Shiter Aranya (1964) is the first published volume of the writer.

Some of the other notable ones are: Atmaja o Ekti Karabi Gaachh (1967), Jeeban Ghase Agun (1973), Pataale, Haspataale (1981), Ma Meyer Sansar (1997), Raarbanger Golpo (1999).

Namhin Gotrohin (1974) portrays the reality of the Liberation War of Bangladesh.

He has also composed two volumes of essays, Kathakataa (1981), and Aprakasher Bhaar (1988).

Hasan Azizul Haque was born on 2 February 1939 in Jabgram, Burdwan District, West Bengal, India. He joined Rajshahi University in 1983 as a Professor in the Department of Philosophy. He taught there until 2004.

In 1970 he received the Bangla Academy Literary Award. In 1999, the Bangladesh government awarded him the Ekushey Padak and in 2019, the Swadhinata Puraskar. In recognition of his universal literary work, he was awarded the title of ‘Sahitya Ratna’ by a private bank in 2016.

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