WRITER

Ahmed Sofa

1943 - 2001

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Ahmed Sofa (Bengali: আহমদ ছফা, pronounced [aɦmɔd sɔfa]; 30 June 1943 – 28 July 2001) was a Bangladeshi writer, thinker, novelist, poet, philosopher and public intellectual. Sofa is considered by many, including National Professor Abdur Razzaq and Salimullah Khan, to be the most important Bengali Muslim writer after Mir Mosharraf Hossain and Kazi Nazrul Islam. A writer by occupation, Sofa wrote 18 non-fiction books, 8 novels, 4 collections of poems, 2 collections of short stories, and several books in other genres. Sofa's Bangali Musalmaner Man (The Mind of the Bengali Muslims, 1981) is a highly acclaimed critical survey of the formation of Bengali Muslims' identity, causes of their backwardness, their development as a community, and their intellectual progress. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ahmed Sofa is the 5,491st most popular writer (down from 5,304th in 2019), the 48th most popular biography from Bangladesh (up from 52nd in 2019) and the 8th most popular Bangladeshi Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ahmed Sofa ranks 5,491 out of 7,302. Before him are Altaf Hussain Hali, Agustín Durán, Petras Cvirka, Judith Krantz, Clorinda Matto de Turner, and William McGonagall. After him are Anna Maria Ortese, Susan Blackmore, Nino Martoglio, Sara Paretsky, Dahlia Ravikovitch, and Jonathan Stroud.

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Among people born in 1943, Ahmed Sofa ranks 549. Before him are Lucius Shepard, Tony Trimmer, Pedro Pablo León, Isabel-Clara Simó, Tanuja, and Kiril Dojčinovski. After him are Frank Shu, Lubomir Kavalek, Kurt Helmudt, Peter Del Monte, Xaviera Hollander, and Walter Murch. Among people deceased in 2001, Ahmed Sofa ranks 266. Before him are Oldřich Lajsek, Sara Ashurbeyli, Corinne Calvet, Ibrahim Shams, Leonid Osyka, and Sivaji Ganesan. After him are Kateryna Yushchenko, Kim Stanley, Harry Winter, Kurt Hoffmann, Boris Stenin, and Zoltán Nemere.

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In Bangladesh

Among people born in Bangladesh, Ahmed Sofa ranks 48 out of 74. Before him are A. K. Fazlul Huq (1873), Suchitra Sen (1931), Humayun Ahmed (1948), Nurul Amin (1893), Bagha Jatin (1879), and Abu Sayeed Chowdhury (1921). After him are Sufia Kamal (1911), Shankha Ghosh (1932), Syed Nazrul Islam (1925), Abdul Quader Molla (1948), Abu Sadat Mohammad Sayem (1916), and Utpal Dutt (1929).

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Among WRITERS In Bangladesh

Among writers born in Bangladesh, Ahmed Sofa ranks 8. Before him are Mahasweta Devi (1926), Begum Rokeya (1880), Chittaranjan Das (1869), Taslima Nasrin (1962), Kamini Roy (1864), and Humayun Ahmed (1948). After him are Sufia Kamal (1911), Shankha Ghosh (1932), Avijit Roy (1972), Mamunul Haque (1973), and Monica Ali (1967).

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