WRITER

Humayun Ahmed

1948 - 2012

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Humayun Ahmed (Bengali: হুমায়ূন আহমেদ [ɦumajuːn aɦmed]; 13 November 1948 – 19 July 2012) was a Bangladeshi novelist, dramatist, screenwriter, filmmaker, songwriter, scholar, and academic. His breakthrough was his debut novel Nondito Noroke published in 1972. He wrote over 200 fiction and non-fiction books. He was one of the most popular authors and filmmakers in post-independence Bangladesh. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Humayun Ahmed is the 5,265th most popular writer (down from 3,926th in 2019), the 44th most popular biography from Bangladesh (down from 34th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Bangladeshi Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Humayun Ahmed ranks 5,265 out of 7,302. Before him are Georgy Ivanov, Alan Bennett, Þórbergur Þórðarson, Théodore Aubanel, Dicuil, and Hasrat Mohani. After him are Édouard Pailleron, Athenaeus Mechanicus, Lise Nørgaard, August Jakobson, Viktoriya Tokareva, and Hans Christian Branner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1948, Humayun Ahmed ranks 526. Before him are David Hungate, Marañón, Walter Planckaert, Johan De Muynck, Raynald Denoueix, and Deborah Shelton. After him are Toninho, Laurent Voulzy, Joel Santana, Bülent Arınç, Nate Archibald, and Srgjan Kerim. Among people deceased in 2012, Humayun Ahmed ranks 326. Before him are Alketas Panagoulias, Dara Singh, Carmen Basilio, Keith Campbell, Zalman King, and Zig Ziglar. After him are Bill Moggridge, Valeri Vasiliev, Lyudmila Kasatkina, Chikage Awashima, Barry Commoner, and Sergey Nikolsky.

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In Bangladesh

Among people born in Bangladesh, Humayun Ahmed ranks 44 out of 74. Before him are Kalpana Datta (1913), Pritilata Waddedar (1911), Mrinal Sen (1923), Ritwik Ghatak (1925), A. K. Fazlul Huq (1873), and Suchitra Sen (1931). After him are Nurul Amin (1893), Bagha Jatin (1879), Abu Sayeed Chowdhury (1921), Ahmed Sofa (1943), Sufia Kamal (1911), and Shankha Ghosh (1932).

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Among WRITERS In Bangladesh

Among writers born in Bangladesh, Humayun Ahmed ranks 7. Before him are Sri Chinmoy (1931), Mahasweta Devi (1926), Begum Rokeya (1880), Chittaranjan Das (1869), Taslima Nasrin (1962), and Kamini Roy (1864). After him are Ahmed Sofa (1943), Sufia Kamal (1911), Shankha Ghosh (1932), Avijit Roy (1972), Mamunul Haque (1973), and Monica Ali (1967).

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