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Nationality
  
Bangldeshi

Role
  
Writer

Name
  
Hasnat Hye


Occupation
  
writer, novelist

Alma mater
  
University of Dhaka

Education
  
University of Dhaka

Hasnat Abdul Hye Biographical Novels of Hasnat Abdul Hye Bangladeshi Novels


Born
  
1939 (age 76–77)
Calcutta, British India (now India)

Awards
  
Ekushey Padak Bangla Academy Award

Books
  
Galpasamagra, Below the Line: Rural Poverty in Bangladesh

Hasnat Abdul Hye (born 1939) is a Bangladesi writer and novelist. He received the national award Ekushey Padak for his contribution to literature in 1994. His novel Sultan was nominated for the Irish Impact Award in 1997.

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Early life and education

Hye was born in Calcutta in 1939 in undivided Bengal. He studied Economics at Dhaka University, the University of Washington, London School of Economics and Development Studies at Cambridge University.

Career

After teaching Economics at Dhaka University he joined Civil Service of Pakistan in 1965 and retired from the Bangladesh Civil Service in 1999.

Books

  • Good Morning, Love(1977)
  • My Assassin (1980)
  • The Whale (1981)
  • The Great Man (1982)
  • Crown Prince (1985)
  • The Master (1986)
  • Sultan (1991)
  • Time (1991)
  • News from Morelganj (1995)
  • One Aroj Ali (1995)
  • Nobhera (1995)
  • One Waiting Outside (1995)
  • Hasan, of Late (1995)
  • Swallow (1996)
  • Interview (1997)
  • Xanadu: A Journey (1999)

    • Awards

  • Bangla Academy Award (1977)
  • Alakta literary Prize (1993)
  • Ekushey Padak (1994)
  • Jagadish Chandra Basu Prize (1995)
  • Sher-e-Bangla Prize (1995)
  • S.M. Sultan Prize (1995)
  • Shilpacharya Zainul Prize (1996)

    • References

    Hasnat Abdul Hye Wikipedia
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