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Ahsan Habib

Died in 1985

Ahsan Habib was born in 1917 in the village of Shankarpasha, in what is now Pirojpur district. Forced by lack of money to leave the college in Barisal, he made his way to Calcutta, where from 1937 he worked on magazines, then from 1943 to 1948 at the radio. Settled in Dhaka after the partition, he went through several newspapers, was editorial adviser to Franklin Publications from 1957 to 1964, then worked from 1964 until his death at the Dainik Pakistan, later renamed Dainik Bangla. He received the Bangla Academy Prize in 1961 and the Ekushey Padak in 1978, and died in Dhaka on 10 July 1985.

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