Sikandar Abu Zafar

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{{infobox person

|name=Sikandar Abu Zafar

|native_name=সিকান্দার আবু জাফর

|native_name_lang=bn

|image = Sikandar Abu Jafar.jpg

|caption = Zafar

|birth_date={{birth date|1918|3|19|df=y}}

|birth_place=Satkhira, Bengal Presidency, British India

|alma_mater=Ripon College

|death_date={{death date and age|1975|7|5|1919|3|19|df=y}}

|death_place=Dhaka, Bangladesh

}}

Sikandar Abu Zafar (19 March 1918 – 5 August 1975) was a Bangladeshi journalist and poet.{{cite news |title=Sikandar Abu Zafar's 95th birth anniversary |url=http://www.thedailystar.net/sikandar-abu-zafars-95th-birth-anniversary-16492 |newspaper=The Daily Star] |date=21 March 2014}} He was awarded Bangla Academy Literary Award in 1966, Ekushey Padak in 1984 and Independence Day Award in 1999 by the government of Bangladesh.{{cite web|url=http://banglaacademy.org.bd/?page_id=1315|script-title=bn:পুরস্কারপ্রাপ্তদের তালিকা|language=bn|trans-title=Winners list|access-date=23 August 2017|publisher=Bangla Academy}}