Kashem Bin Abu Bakar

Kasem bin Abu Bakr (Bengali: কাশেম বিন আবু বকর) is an Indian-born Bangladeshi novelist whose novel focuses on Islam-centered love in a rural context.

Biography He was born in Hooghly, present-day West Bengal, and later moved to Bangladesh. He passed his Matriculation from the Howrah Board in West Bengal. Although he enrolled in intermediate studies, he was unable to complete them due to family pressures arising from being the eldest son.

Qasem bin Abu Bakr has been largely overlooked in Bangladesh's literary circles and mainstream media but has been described by AFP as one of the country's best-selling authors.