DHAKA, JULY
20: A
grief-stricken
nation has
paid tearful
homage to
legendary
writer,
playwright and
film maker
Humayun Ahmed
who lost a
ten-month-long
protracted
battle against
Colon Cancer
at a hospital
in New York,
on...
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The family was
preparing to
hold Humayun
Ahmed's first
janaza
(funeral) at
the Jamaica
Muslim Centre,
New York after
jumma prayers
(yesterday
around 11:30pm
BST). His body
was then
supposed to be
taken back to
Islamic
Funeral Home.
Subject to
confirmation
of air ticket,
the
illustrious
man's body
will be
brought home
Sunday.
It
was four years
back Humayun
Ahmed invited a
host of
relatives to his
beloved retreat
Nuhash Palli in
the greenery of
Gazipur saal
forest.
Eminent
personalities
and different
social,
political and
cultural
organisations
yesterday
expressed...
Humayun
Ahmed returns
home from New
York
DHAKA:
Noted writer
Humayun Ahmed,
who is now
undergoing
treatment for
colon cancer in
New York, USA,
returned home on
Friday morning.
A flight
carrying the
ailing writer
from New York
landed at Hazrat
Shahjalal
International
Airport around
6:00am.
Humayun directly
moved to his
Nuhash Palli in
Gazipur along
with his wife
Meher Afroz
Shawon, two
sons-Nishad and
Ninit.
He will fly
New York again
to continue his
treatment after
two weeks,
sources said.
Earlier on
September 14,
2011, popular
writer Humayun
Ahmed flew to
New York to take
treatment of his
colon cancer.
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2012
Edited by: Tilka
Binte Mehtab,
Newsroom Editor
/ Mohammed
Humayun Kabir,
Sr Newsroom
Editor
Writer
Humayun Ahmed
died-64 at a New
York hospital,
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প্রথমে
হুমায়ূন
আহমেদের
নাম রাখা
হয়েছিল
শামসুর
রহমান;
ডাকনাম
কাজল। বাবা
ফয়জুর
রহমান
নিজের
নামের সঙ্গে
মিল রেখে
ছেলের এই
নাম রাখেন।
কিন্তু পরে
তিনি নিজেই
নাম বদলে
দেন। এবার
রাখেন
হুমায়ূন
আহমেদ। এই
হুমায়ূন
আহমেদই হয়ে
উঠেছেন
কিংবদন্তি।
বাংলা
সাহিত্যের
সবচেয়ে
জনপ্রিয়
ও...
বিস্তারিত
The
body of
popular
Bengali
fiction-writer
Humayun
Ahmed will
be flown
back home
Sunday
amid waves
of shock
over the
untimely
demise of
a greater
author.
Humayun
Ahmed,
64,...
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Popular
writer Humayun
Ahmed is no
more. Aged 64,
he died while
undergoing
treatment for
cancer at a New
York hospital
last night.
His wife
Meher Afroz
Shaon and
younger brother
Professor
Muhammed Zafar
Iqbal, a reputed
writer himself,
were present
when he breathed
his last at
Manhattan's
Bellevue
Hospital at
around 11:20pm
Bangladesh time.
The eldest
among three
brothers and two
sisters, Humayun
was also a
renowned
filmmaker and
dramatist. He
went to New York
on September 14
last year after
being diagnosed
with colon
cancer
during a routine
check-up in
Singapore.
He had received
chemotherapy in
12 cycles at
Memorial
Sloan-Kettering
Cancer Centre in
New York before
he returned to
Bangladesh on
May 11 to spend
time with
friends and
relatives for 20
days.
Back in New
York, he
underwent two
surgeries last
month. After the
second surgery,
he was infected
with a virus
unknown to the
doctors, which
spread through
the body.
A pall of gloom
descended soon
after the news
streamed into
the country and
across it.
A former
associate
professor of the
chemistry
department of
Dhaka
University,
Humayun came
into prominence
after the
publication of
his first novel,
Nondito Noroke,
in 1974.
President Zillur
Rahman, Prime
Minister Sheikh
Hasina and
Leader of the
Opposition
Khaleda Zia have
expressed deep
shock at the
death of Humayun.
In his
condolence
message,
President Zillur
Rahman said the
creative works
of Humayun Ahmed
would remain
immortal in
Bengali fiction.
The president
prayed for the
eternal peace of
the departed
soul and
conveyed his
sympathies to
the bereaved
family, reported
BSS.
Prime Minister
Sheikh Hasina
said Humayun's
death was an
irreparable loss
to the nation.
People will
always remember
him fondly, the
prime minister's
special
assistant
(media) Mahbubul
Hoque Shakil
quoted her as
saying last
night.
BNP Chairperson
Khaleda Zia
prayed for the
salvation of the
departed soul
and expressed
her deep
sympathies for
the
littérateur's
bereaved family
members.
Humayun emerged
as a powerful
voice in
Bangladesh's
literary world
in the early
1970s,
eventually
becoming clearly
the most popular
writer of the
country.
Nicknamed Kajol,
the writer was
born in Kutubpur
village of
Netrakona on
November 13,
1948, to Fayzur
Rahman Ahmed, a
police officer,
and Ayesha
Fayzur. His
father, who was
also a writer,
was murdered by
the Pakistan
occupation army
and its local
collaborators
during the
Liberation War
in 1971.
Another brother
of Humayun
Ahmed, Ahsan
Habib, is a
painter and
editor of Unmad,
a cartoon
magazine.
Humayun married
Gultekin,
granddaughter of
Principal
Ibrahim Khan, in
1973. The couple
divorced in
2003, with the
writer
subsequently
marrying
television
actress Shaon.
Humayun had his
schooling in
Sylhet, Comilla,
Chittagong,
Dinajpur and
Bogra owing to
his father's
postings in
these towns. He
passed the
School
Certificate
examination as a
student of Bogra
Zilla School.
A few months
ago, Humayun
Ahmed was
appointed
special adviser
to the
Bangladesh
permanent
mission at the
United Nations
by the
government.
He continued
writing during
his stay in New
York for cancer
treatment.
Humayun retired
as a Dhaka
University
teacher in the
mid-1990s to
devote himself
to writing and
making films and
television
dramas.
His first film,
"Aguner
Parashmoni",
based on the
Liberation War,
won the National
Film Award in
eight
categories,
including Best
Picture and Best
Director.
Humayun won the
Bangla Academy
Award in 1981
and the Ekushey
Padak in 1994.
His first award
was Lekhak
Shibir Prize in
1973.
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