Abul Hossain was born on 15 August 1922 in the village of Aruadanga in Fakirhat upazila of Bagerhat district. His mother's name was Meherun Nesa. His father was a police officer. He was killed by Pakistani soldiers on 24 April 1971 at Bagerhat. His younger brother Amjad Hossain was once a minister in Pakistan.
Abul Hossain's ancestral home is in Deyara village of Aichgati union in Rupsha upazila of Khulna district. He spent his childhood in Krishna Nagar, West Bengal, then in Calcutta and later in Bangladesh. He was admitted in the third class of Krishnanagar Collegiate School in 1929 at the age of seven. Her first poem was published in this school magazine while she was in eighth grade. He passed matriculation examination in 1938 from Kushtia High School. He graduated from Calcutta Presidency College in 1942 with a degree in Economics and later in Sociology.
He started his career with a government job. In his career he was a high-ranking government official. Early in his career, he first joined the office of the Commissioner of Income-tax, Calcutta, as Examiner of Accounts. After the partition of India, he came to Mymensingh as an Assistant Sales Tax Officer. Two-and-a-half years later, in the mid-1950s, he joined Radio Pakistan in Dhaka on an equal footing. He then hired Bank as the International Staff in the Sito Public Information Office. After that he returned to Bangladesh and joined the public relations department.
The artist, who stood as a writer in his early youth, retired in 1982 as the Joint Secretary to the Government of Bangladesh.
In 1956, he married Sahana, the eldest daughter of renowned writer Akbar Uddin. Sahana died in 1994.
He died on June 29, 2014 at Square Hospital in Dhaka.
For his contribution to literature, he was awarded the Bangla Academy Literary Award in 1963, the Ekushey Padak in 1980. He also won the National Poetry Award Nasiruddin Gold Medal, Padabali Award, Kazi Mahbubullah Award and Gold Medal, Abul Hasanat Sahitya Award, Janbarta Gold Medal, Bangiya Sahitya Parishad Award, Janakantha Gunijan has received various awards and honors including honors and receptions by the National Museum.
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