Shahid Akhand
Shahid Akhand is 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.