Hasan Azizul Haque Translated from Bengali by Rifat Munim. Without a name, without a tribe The man got off from the afternoon train. It was early winter, yet he had a thick tweed coat on….
Author: Hasan Azizul Haque
Born in 1939, Hasan Azizul Haque lives in Rajshahi, Bangladesh. He taught Philosophy at Rajshahi University. He is the most revered living fiction writer in Bangla. He has won the Bangla Academy Award and the Ananda Purashkar. His short story collections include Samudrer Swapna, Shiter Aranya, Atmaja o Ekti Karabi Gaachh and Jeeban Ghase Agun. His most notable novel is Agunpakhi.
Hasan Azizul Haque’s literary career spans more than five decades. His experiments with realism, allegory and narrative technique have given life to an exquisite form of literary expression in Bengali. History appears with all its raw materials in his fiction. Yet his stories transcend history in a way that makes them relevant to all readers irrespective of their race, gender and religion.