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Humayun Azad Humayun Azad born Humayun Kabir ; 28 April 1947 – 12 August 2004 ) was a Bangladeshi poet , novelist , short-story writer , critic , linguist , columnist and professor of Dhaka University . He wrote more than sixty titles . He was awarded the Bangla Academy Literary Award in 1986 for his contributions to Bengali linguistics . In 2012 , the Government of Bangladesh honored him with Ekushey Padak posthumously for his contributions to Bengali literature . Early life and education . Azad was born as Humayun Kabir on 28 April 1947 in Rarhikhal village in Bikrampur which village is now under the Sreenagar sub-district of Munshiganj district . Notable scientist Jagadish Chandra Bose was born in the same village . He passed the secondary examination from Sir Jagadish Chandra Basu Institute in 1962 and higher secondary examination from Dhaka College in 1964 . He earned BA and MA degrees in Bengali language and literature from the University of Dhaka in 1967 and 1968 respectively . He obtained his PhD in linguistics submitting his thesis titled Pronominalisation in Bangla from the University of Edinburgh in 1976 . Azad changed his surname from Kabir to Azad on 28 September 1988 by the magistrate of Narayanganj District . Career . Azad started his career in 1969 by joining the Chittagong College . He joined the University of Chittagong as a lecturer on 11 February 1970 and Jahangirnagar University in 1972 . He was appointed as an associate professor of Bengali at the University of Dhaka on 1 November 1978 and got promoted to the post of professor in 1986 . Literary works . Azads first published book was about collection of poems written by himself ( written from 1960s decade to 1972 ) , the book was titled as Alaukik Istimar ( ) , this was published in 1973 , in which year he went to Scotland for studying Ph.D in Linguistics from University of Edinburgh . He wrote a short-story in 1979 called Onoboroto Tusharpat ( ) which was inspired from his newly-wed life with his Dhaka University class-mate Latifa Kohinoor , he took Latifa Scotland after the marriage in 1975 , in Britain one day among heavy snowing Azad was driving a car with his wife which became the main plot of the short story ; so many years later Azad included this short-story in his 1996 book Jadukorer Mrityu ( ) which book is the collection of his own-written five short-stories . Towards the end of the 1980s , he started to write newspaper column focusing on contemporary sociopolitical issues . His commentaries continued throughout the 1990s and were later published as books as they grew in numbers . Through his writings of the 1990s and early 2000s he established himself as a novelist . In 1992 Azad published the first comprehensive feminist book in Bengali titled Naree ( ) . Naree received both positive and negative reviews as a treatise , it was considered the first full fledged feminist book after the independence of Bangladesh . In this work Azad mentioned the pro-women contributions of the British Indias two famous Bengali socio-political reformers : Raja Rammohan Roy and Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar , he criticized Rabindranath Tagore , a famous Bengali poet and Nobel laureate , and Bankim Chandra Chatterjee , a famous Bengali novelist of the 19th century . The work , critical of the patriarchal and male-chauvinistic attitude of society towards women , attracted negative reactions from many Bangladeshi readers . The Government of Bangladesh banned the book in 1995 . The ban was eventually lifted in 2000 , following a legal battle that Azad won in the High Court of the country . In the year of 1994 he published his first novel which was titled as Chhappanno Hajar Borgomail ( ) ; the novel was about military rule in Bangladesh in 1980s decade . He got special recognition for his second novel Sab Kichu Bhene Pare ( 1995 ) which was based on interpersonal relationship of Bangladeshi society . He wrote Ekti Khuner Svapna ( ) , an unrequited love-based novel where the main male protagonist lives in Salimullah Muslim Hall of Dhaka University where Azad lived during his student life , it was Azads last novel published in 2004 in which year he died . Other important novels are Kobi Othoba Dondito Aupurush ( ) and Nijer Shonge Nijer Jiboner Modhu ( ) , the first was based on a fictitious late 20th century Bangladeshi male poets life who is castrated after involving in live-in relationship with a much younger woman and the latter was inspired by Humayun Azads own rural life when he was a teen-aged boy . Another noted novel written by Azad was Fali Fali Kore Kata Chand ( ) , where the main female protagonist character Shirin is an educated young woman with self-boastfulness , she engages in adultery , leaves her husband and becomes misandrist . Azad also wrote teen-age literature , among them , the discourse-book Laal Neel Deepabali is noted , this book was written for teen-aged boys and girls as Azads aim was to teach Bangladeshi adolescent boys and girls about the history of Bengali literature in short . Assassination attempt . On 27 February 2004 , near the campus of the University of Dhaka during the annual Bangla Academy book fair , two assailants , armed with chopper machetes , hacked Azad several times on the jaw , lower part of the neck and hands . Azad was taken to the nearby Dhaka Medical College and Hospital . By the order of the then Prime Minister of Bangladesh Khaleda Zia , Azad was immediately sent to the Combined Military Hospital ( CMH ) , Dhaka for better treatment and later to Bumrungrad International Hospital in Thailand where he recovered . Azad had been fearing for his life ever since excerpts of his novel , Pak Sar Jamin Sad Bad ( ) were first published in The Daily Ittefaq Newspapers Eid supplement in 2003 . In that novel , he indecorously criticised the political ideologies of the Islamic extremists of Bangladesh . After that book had been published , he started receiving various threats from the Islamist fundamentalists . A week prior to Azads assault , Delwar Hossain Sayeedi , one of the members of parliament of Bangladesh said in the parliament , that Azads political satire Pak Sar Jamin Sad Bad must be banned ; he also wanted infliction of the blasphemy law of Bangladesh for this kind of book . In 2006 , one of the leaders of the fundamentalist organization Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh ( JMB ) admitted to the RAB interrogators that his operatives carried out the attack on writer Azad , as well as two other murders , bomb blasts , and 2002 attacks on cinemas . Death . On 12 August 2004 , Azad was found dead in his apartment in Munich , Germany , where he had arrived a week earlier to conduct research on the nineteenth century German romantic poet Heinrich Heine , several months after the Islamists machete attack on him at a book fair , which had left him grievously injured . His family demanded an investigation , alleging that the extremists who had attempted the earlier assassination had a role in this death . While alive , Azad had expressed his wish to donate his body to medical college after his death . But he was buried in Rarhikhal , his village home in Bangladesh , as doctors denied to take his body for medical research , as several days had passed to reach his body to Bangladesh from Germany . The first death anniversary of Azad was observed with respect in Rarhikhal village on Friday , the 12 August 2005 . Personal life . Azad married Latifa Kohinoor on 12 October 1975 whom he first met 1968 when studying M.A . in Dhaka University . Together they had two daughters , Smita and Mouli , and one son , Anannya . Bibliography . Notable books . - Alaukik Istimar , collection of poems ( 1973 ) - Lal Neel Deepabali Ba Bangla Shahitter Jiboni , short history of Bengali literature ( 1976 ) - Naree , treatise on feminism ( 1992 ) - Sab Kichu Bhene Pare , novel on inter-personal relationship of Bangladeshi society ( 1995 ) - Nijer Shonge Nijer Jiboner Modhu , novel on rural life of Bangladesh ( 2000 ) - Fali Fali Kore Kata Chand , novel on a woman who is an individualistic feminist ( 2001 ) - Pak Sar Jamin Sad Bad , novel on the fundamentalism of Bangladesh ( 2003 ) - Ekti Khuner Svapna , novel on unrequited love of a young man ( 2004 )