Kabir Chowdhury

Kabir Chowdhury was Bangladeshi academic, essayist, materialist, translator, cultural worker and civil society activist. Chowdhury has written extensively on world's famous writers and painters. He taught at Dhaka College (Dhaka) and B. M. College, Barisal (as Principal) and few years at University of Dhaka as a Professor of English.

He has worked as the Secretary, Ministry of Education, Cultural Affairs & Sports and Government of Bangladesh before his voluntary retirement from government service.

He was inducted as National Professor of Bangladesh in 1998. Chowdhury was a member of the Presidium of the Bangladesh World Peace Council and headed the Bangladesh-Soviet Friendship Society for over a decade. He died on 13 December 2011 (aged 88) at Naya Paltan, Dhaka, Bangladesh.