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Published: 01:16 AM, 12 August 2018
Humayun Azad
Humayun Azad was a Bangladeshi author, poet, scholar and linguist. He wrote more than seventy titles.His writings against religious fundamentalism received both positive and negative reviews.
He was threatened and attacked by Islamist fundamentalist groups for his writings. Azad was awarded the Bangla Academy Literary Award in 1986 for his contributions to Bengali linguistics. In 2012, the Government of Bangladesh honored him with Ekushey Padak posthumously.
Through his writings of the 1990s, he established himself as a freethinker and appeared to be an agnostic. In his works, he openly criticised religious extremism, as well as Islam, the major religion in Bangladesh.
In 1992 Azad published the first comprehensive feminist book in Bengali titled Naari (Woman). Naari received positive reviews as a literary work and earned Azad popularity as an author.
