Syed Manzoorul Islam

Syed Manzoorul Islam
সৈয়দ মনজুরুল ইসলাম
Manzoorul Islam in 2011
Born (1951-01-18) 18 January 1951 (age 73)
Sylhet, East Bengal, Dominion of Pakistan
NationalityBangladeshi
Alma mater
Occupation(s)Professor, writer
AwardsBangla Academy Literary Award

Syed Manzoorul Islam (born 18 January 1951) is a Bangladeshi critic, writer and a former professor of Dhaka University.[1] As a literary critic, he has written criticism on writers including Michael Madhusudan Dutt, Kazi Nazrul Islam, Sudhindranath Dutta, Samar Sen, and Shamsur Rahman.[2] He received a Bangla Academy Literary Award in 1996,[2] and his 2005 short stories collection Prem o Prarthanar Galpo was Prothom Alo's book of the year. He became the president of PEN Bangladesh in January 2018.[3]

  1. ^ "Syed Manzoorul Islam: Tales of the post-modern". The Daily Star. 18 June 2011. Retrieved 20 January 2018.
  2. ^ a b Selina Hossain, Nurul Islam and Mobarak Hossain, ed. (2000). Bangla Academy Dictionary of Writers. Dhaka: Bangla Academy. p. 187. ISBN 984-07-4052-0.
  3. ^ "Syed Manzoorul Islam: "A Veritable Man of Letters"". The Daily Star. 20 January 2018. Retrieved 21 January 2018.