Given the question: Facts: - residence: dhaka - notable works: '' '' , '' '' '' , '' - home town: sylhet - caption: syed manzoorul islam - occupation: professor , writer - awards: * bangla academy award in 1996 , - birth date: 18 january 1951 - native name: - image size: 200px - nationality: bangladeshi - image: syed manzoorul islam.jpg - alma mater: university of dhaka Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of syed manzoorul islam .
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syed manzoorul islam -lrb- bengali : ; born january 18 , 1951 -rrb- is a bangladeshi academic , writer , novelist , translator , columnist , and critic .he is a professor of english at the university of dhaka .he has published several collections of short stories and several novels from dhaka and kolkata .his works of fiction have been highly praised for their surrealistic , magic realistic and post-modernistic nature .as a literary critic , islam has written substantive criticism on writers including michael madhusudan dutt , kazi nazrul islam , sudhindranath dutta , samar sen , and shamsur rahman .he received a bangla academy award in 1996 , and his 2005 short stories collection '' prem o prarthanar galpo '' was prothom alo 's book of the year .