Humayun ahamed

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Humayun Ahmed ([ɦumaijun aɦmed]; 13 November 1948 – 19 July 2012)[3][4] was a Bangladeshi novelist, dramatist, screenwriter, filmmaker, songwriter, scholar, and lecturer.[5]His breakthrough was his debut novel Nondito Noroke published in 1972.[6] He wrote over 200 fiction and non-fiction books, many of which were bestsellers in Bangladesh.[7][8] His books were the top sellers at the Ekushey Book Fair during the 1990s and 2000s.[9] He won the Bangla Academy Literary Award in 1981 and the Ekushey Padak in 1994 for his contribution to Bengali literature.

Humayun Ahmed

Ahmed in 2010

Native nameহুমায়ূন আহমেদBorn13 November 1948[1]
Kutubpur village, Mymensingh District(Present Day Netrokona District), East Bengal, Dominion of PakistanDied19 July 2012(aged 63)
New York City, United StatesResting placeNuhash Polli, Pirujali, Gazipur, Bangladesh[2]OccupationWriter, poet, film director, academic, dramatistNationalityBangladeshiEducationPhD (polymer chemistry)Alma materDhaka College 
University of Dhaka 
North Dakota State UniversityNotable awardsBangla Academy Literary Award 
Ekushey PadakYears active1972–2012Spouse

• Gultekin Khan

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  m. 1976; div. 2003)

• Meher Afroz Shaon

   (m. 2004)

Children

• Nova

• Shila

• Bipasha

• Nuhash Humayun

• Nishad

• Ninit

Relatives

• Muhammad Zafar Iqbal (brother)

• Ahsan Habib (brother)

In the early 1990s, Ahmed emerged as a filmmaker. He went on to make a total of eight films - each based on his own novels. He received six Bangladesh National Film Awardsin different categories for the films Daruchini Dip, Aguner Poroshmoni and Ghetuputra Komola. He has his own production company named Nuhash Chalachitra.