Shahid Akhand

Shahid Akhand (21 January 1935 – October 2024) was a Bangladeshi author and novelist of Bengali literature.

Biography Akhand was born on 21 January 1935 in Mymensingh district. He completed a master's degree in Bengali at Dhaka University in 1959.

He began writing in the second decade after the Partition of Bengal (1947). His novel Panna Holo Sobuj depicted urban middle-class life.

In 1978, he won a Bangla Academy Literary Award for a short story. In 2008, a play adapted from his novel Bhetorer Manush was screened on Bangladesh Television.

He lives in Bangladesh, and has been blind for a few years. He has three daughters and a son.

Akhand died in October 2024, at the age of 89.

Works

Novels Panna Holo Sobuj (Emerald Green, 1964) Pakhir Gaan Boner Chhaya (Bird Songs Forest Shades, 1970) Dudondo Shanti (Moments of Peace, 1971) Ekoda Ek Bosonte (Once in Spring Time, 1984) Shei Pakhi (That Bird 1986) Apon Sourav (Own Fragrance 1986) Kokhon Ke Jane (Who Knows When, 1995) Bhetorer Manush