birth_date: 1911-06-20 00:00:00
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name: Sufia Kamal
about: Begum Sufia Kamal (Bengali: সুফিয়া কামাল) was a Bangladeshi poet, freedom fighter, feminist and political activist. Kamal was an influential cultural icon in the Bengali nationalist movement of the 1950s and 60s and an important civil society leader in independent Bangladesh. She died in 1999 and was the first woman to be given a state funeral in the country.She was honored with Bangla Academy Award for Literature (1962) and Ekushey Padak (1976).
death_date: 1999-11-20 00:00:00