Humayun Ahmed
Author, poet, dramatist and film director
Humayun Ahmed (13 November 1948 – 19 July 2012) was a Bangladeshi novelist, dramatist, screenwriter, filmmaker, songwriter, scholar, and professor.
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- So many people are hanged for no good reason, so many people die by the roadside and there is hardly any public headache over these. Yet, here was a fictional character being hanged and the public are up in arms. I was quite taken aback by all this.
- 2012 Interview with BBC, on the public agitation over Baker Bhai's hanging.
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- Humayun's works are the most profound and most fruitful that literature has experienced since the time of Tagore and Nazrul.
- Interview with Times of India], by Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus.
- A skilled photographer equipped with a camera with a very powerful lens who captures mainly photographs of ordinary birthday parties.
- Criticising Ahmed on his capabilities, by educationist, writer and his younger brother, Muhammed Zafar Iqbal.