Moinul Ahsan Saber

Moinul Ahsan Saber (born 26 May 1958) is a Bangladeshi fiction writer. He is the executive editor of weekly magazine Saptahik 2000, published from Dhaka. He also heads Dibya Prokash, a progressive publishing house in Bangladesh. He was awarded Bangla Academy Literary Award in 1996. For his contribution to Bengali language and literature, the Bangladesh government awarded him the Ekushey Padak, the country's second highest civilian honor in 2019.

Early life and career Saber's father, Ahsan Habib, was a poet. His sister Keya Chowdhury is a well-known Bangla reciter. Saber emerged as a writer and got breakthrough with the publication of his first novel Porasto Sahish in 1982.

Works

Books Porasto Sahish (The Defeated Horse-Keeper), 1982 Aadmer Jonye Opeksha (Waiting for Adam), 1986 Pathor Somoy (Frozen Time), 1989 Char Torun Toruni (Four Teenage Boys and Girls), 1990 Manush Jekhane Jai Na (Where Man Doesn't Go), 1990 Dharabahik Kahini (A Continuous Story), 1992 Opeksha (Waiting), 1992 Tumi Amake Niye Jabe (You Will Take Me), 1993 Kobej Lethel (Kobej, the Ruffian), 1993 Prem O Protishodh (Love and Revenge), 1993 Songshar Japon (Family Life), 1997

Television drama Pathor Somoy, Bangladesh Television

Film Liliputera Ber Hobe (screenplay based on Gulliver's Travels)