Rashid Haider

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|name=Rashid Haider

|native_name=রশীদ হায়দার

|native_name_lang = bn

|image=Rashid Haider.jpg

|caption=Haider in 2012

|birth_date={{birth date|1941|7|15|df=y}}

|birth_place=Pabna, Bengal Presidency, British India

|nationality=Bangladeshi

|alma_mater=University of Dhaka

|awards=full list

|occupation=Novelist

|relatives=Zia Haider (brother)

|death_date={{death date and age|2020|10|13|1941|7|15|df=y}}

|death_place=Dhaka, Bangladesh

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Rashid Haider (15 July 1941 – 13 October 2020){{Cite news |date=2020-10-14 |title=Rashid Haider passes away |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/frontpage/news/rashid-haider-passes-away-1977501 |access-date=2020-10-24 |work=The Daily Star |language=en}} was a Bangladeshi author and novelist.{{cite web |url=http://www.bangladesh2day.com/newsfinance/2009/August/28/Carrying-on-the-legacy-of-Nazrul.php |title=Carrying on the legacy of Nazrul 28 August, 2009 |date=28 August 2009 |publisher=Bangladesh today |accessdate=1 November 2010}}{{cite Banglapedia |article=Novel}} He was awarded Ekushey Padak in 2014 and Bangla Academy Literary Award in 1984 by the government of Bangladesh.{{cite news |url=http://www.thedailystar.net/rashid-haider-accorded-reception-in-pabna-59436 |title=Rashid Haider accorded reception in Pabna |work=The Daily Star |date=2015-01-12 |author=Ahmed Humayun Kabir Topu |accessdate=2020-10-24}} He was the author of more than 70 books throughout his career.

Background

Sheikh Faisal Abdur Rashid Muhammad Ziauddin Haider was born into an aristocratic Bengali Muslim zamindar family of Sheikhs on 15 July 1941 to Hakimuddin Sheikh and Rahima Khatun in Doharpara in Pabna Town of British India. His father Hakimuddin Sheikh was a prominent zamindar in Pabna Town and would have received the title of Khan Bahadur from the ruling British Raj had the Partition of India been delayed a few years.{{Cite news |date=2016-03-04 |title=In A Language Reborn |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/editorials/in-a-language-reborn/ |access-date=2024-02-24 |work=The Indian Express |type=Opinion |language=en}}{{Cite news |title=Ex-Bangla Academy director Rashid Haider no more |url=https://www.observerbd.com/news.php?id=279520 |access-date=2024-02-24 |work=The Daily Observer}} He graduated in Bangla from the University of Dhaka.

Career

Haider began journalism through the magazine Chitrali since 1961.{{Cite news |title=Writer Rashid Haider dies at 80 |url=https://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/writer-rashid-haider-dies-at-80 |access-date=2020-10-13 |work=bdnews24.com |date=13 October 2020}} He was a member of the Pakistan Writers' Guild in 1964. He was a member of Nagorik Natya Sampradaya, founded by his brother Zia Haider. Rashid wrote Toilo Shonkot, and acted in Baki Itihash, the first play by Nagorik.