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Ahmed Sofa

Died in 2001

Ahmed Sofa was born on 30 June 1943 in the village of Gachbaria, in the Chandanaish sub-district, in Chittagong district. A student of Bengali and then of political science at the University of Dhaka, he obtained in 1970 a Bangla Academy fellowship for a thesis, never completed, under the supervision of Abdur Razzaq, and the same year took part in founding the Lekhak Shibir, the writers' camp. An essayist, poet and novelist, he translated the first part of Goethe's Faust over twelve years. He died in Dhaka on 28 July 2001.

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