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Bangla Academy Literary Award-winning essayist, novelist, freedom fighter and researcher Hossainuddin Hossain has passed away (Inna Lillahi Wa Inna Ilaihi Raziun). He has been undergoing treatment at Jessore Combined Military Hospital (CMH) for the past week.
He was 83 before his death. He was suffering from numerous diseases.
He breathed his last there in the hospital at around 4 PM on Monday (20 May). His family members confirmed his death news. Hossenuddin Hossain was born in 28 February 1941 in Krisnanagar village under Jhikorgacha Upozila of Jashore. After completing his primary education in his native village, he passed matriculation in 1957 from Jhikargacha English High School. He completed his higher secondary in 1959. In 1955, his first poem was published in the Calcutta daily Loksevak.
Later his various articles, stories, and poems started appearing in different newspapers of Dhaka and Calcutta. He participated in the independence war of Bangladesh in 1971. The most notable works of Hossenuddin Hossen are, Nosto Manush, Amrit Boideshik, Sadhuhatir Lokjon, Edur o Manushera, Plabon ebong Ekjon Nuh, Voltaire Flaubert Kolostotto, and Jugmanas. Oithjjo Adhunikota o Ahsan Habib, Banglar Bidroho, Somaj Sahitto Dorshon Probondho, Ronokhetre Sarabela Muktijuddher Smriti, Loklokottor Gatha Kinbodonti, Bonovumi o Onanno Golpo and Ononno Rabindranath.
His 'Plabon ebong Ekjon Nuh' has been enlisted in the curriculum of Cambridge University. Besides his 'Edur o Manushera' is an enlisted text of the Bangla Department of Biswabharati University.
In 2021 he received Bangla Academy Literary Award for special contribution in the essay, and research.
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