Hasnat Abdul Hye

Hasnat Abdul Hye (born ) As of 2017, he has 70 published works in both Bengali and English. He had eight siblings.

Career Hye taught economics at the University of Dhaka for two years before joining the Civil Service of Pakistan in 1965. He retired as a full secretary of the Bangladesh government in 2000.

Works Hye wrote his first short story, "Carnival", in 1960. His first travelogue is titled Manhattan and Ten Dollars.

In 2008, he published Boyhood in British India and Pakistan, a collection of autobiographical columns that appeared in Daily News under the banner Aide Memoire. This covers a period from 1943 to 1954. Few days later, M Wahiduzzaman, a professor at the University of Dhaka, filed a petition with the High Court as a public interest litigation saying the story written by Hye "is provocative and insulting to the women of the society". The High Court later rejected the writ petition.

Books

Awards Bangla Academy Literary Award (1977) Alakta Literary Prize (1993) Ekushey Padak (1994) Jagadish Chandra Basu Prize (1995) Sher-e-Bangla Prize (1995) S.M. Sultan Prize (1995) Shilpacharya Zainul Prize (1996)

Personal life Hye was married to Nasreen Hye (d. 2012). Together they had a son and a daughter. According to the Bangla Academy Dictionary of Writers, however, he was born on 4 September 1939. His publisher, The University Press Limited, also says 1939.