Khondakar Ashraf Hossain

Khondakar Ashraf Hossain was a leading poet, essayist, translator, and editor from Bangladesh. He wrote more than eighteen titles. Hossain was born in Joynagar village in Jamalpur Sadar Upazila, Dhaka, Bangladesh, on 4 January 1950. He earned a BA degree in 1970 and an MA degree in 1971, both are in English and from the University of Dhaka; and MAs in Linguistics and ELT from the University of Leeds in 1981.

He also obtained a PhD in English from the University of Dhaka and a postgraduate diploma in Teaching English Overseas from the University of Leeds in 1980. His doctoral thesis is entitled Modernism and Beyond: Western Influence on Bangladeshi Poetry. Dr. Hossain was a professor and chairman of the Department of English at the University of Dhaka.