Jasimuddin

Jasimuddin was born on 1 January 1903 in Tambulkhana, in the district of Faridpur, at his maternal uncle's house; his father was a schoolmaster. A graduate in Bengali of the University of Calcutta in 1929 and 1931, he collected the oral literature of Bengal from 1931 to 1937 under Dinesh Chandra Sen. He taught at the University of Dhaka from 1938 to 1944, then served in information and broadcasting until 1962. He was called the poet of the countryside. In 1974 he refused the prize of the Bangla Academy and died in Dhaka in March 1976.

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• PoetryThe Field of the Embroidered Quiltনকশী কাঁথার মাঠJasimuddin · 1929Literature