Bngldeshi Popular Writer Film Director Humayun Ahmed Died New York Hospital
Famous Bangladeshi author, dramatist and film director Humayun Ahmed, 64, has died in a New York hospital after a nine-month battle against cancer.
DR Abdul Momen, the Bangladesh ambassador to the UN, told press that he had breathed his last at 11:30pm Thursday Bangladesh time.
Wife Meher Afroz Shaon, younger brother Mohammad Zafar Iqbal and publisher Mazharul Islam were at the Bellevue Hospital at the time of death.
Humayun Ahmed emerged in the Bengali literary world in the early 1970s and over the subsequent decade became the most popular fiction writer of the country. As a writer, Ahmed often displays a fascination for creating stories around supernatural events; his style is characterized as magic realism.
During his life time he received several award, including
- Lekhak Shibir Prize (1973)
- Bangla Academy Award (1981)
- Shishu Academy Award
- Jainul Abedin Gold Medal
- Michael Madhusudan Medal (1987)
- Bacsas Prize (1988)
- Humayun Qadir Memorial Prize (1990)
- National Film Award (Best Story 1993, Best Film 1994, Best Dialogue 1994)
- Ekushe Podok (1994)
- ShellTec Award (2007)
