Kaiser Haq Writer

Kaiser Hamidul Haq (Bengali: কায়সার হক, born 7 December 1950) is a Bangladeshi poet, translator, essayist, critic and academic. Kaiser Haq is one of the few Bangladeshis who excel in creative writings in English. He is a professor of English at the University of Dhaka. In the liberation war of Bangladesh, he fought against Pakistani Army "as a freshly commissioned subaltern in command of a company". Haq's poems, mostly written in free verse in standard English and rooted in Bangladeshi life and culture availed him international acknowledgement as "a writer worth noticing".

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Kaiser Haq
Birth dateDecember 07, 1950
Birth place
East Bengal
Nationality
Bangladesh
Education
University of Dhaka

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award
Bangla Academy Award
language
English language

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