12 Facts About Humayun Azad

Humayun Azad was awarded the Bangla Academy Literary Award in 1986 for his contributions to Bengali linguistics.

Humayun Azad passed the secondary examination from Sir Jagadish Chandra Basu Institute in 1962 and higher secondary examination from Dhaka College in 1964.

Humayun Azad earned BA and MA degrees in Bengali language and literature from the University of Dhaka in 1967 and 1968 respectively.

Humayun Azad obtained his PhD in linguistics submitting his thesis titled "Pronominalisation in Bangla" from the University of Edinburgh in 1976.

Humayun Azad started his career in 1969 by joining the Chittagong College.

Humayun Azad joined the University of Chittagong as a lecturer on 11 February 1970 and Jahangirnagar University in December.

Humayun Azad was appointed as an associate professor of Bengali at the University of Dhaka on 1 November 1978 and got promoted to the post of professor in 1986.

Humayun Azad's commentaries continued throughout the 1990s and were later published as books as they grew in numbers.

In 1992, Humayun Azad published the first comprehensive feminist book in Bengali titled Naree.

The ban was eventually lifted in 2000, following a legal battle that Humayun Azad won in the High Court of the country.

On 12 August 2004, Humayun Azad was found dead in his apartment in Munich, Germany, where he had arrived a week earlier to conduct research on the nineteenth century German romantic poet Heinrich Heine, several months after the Islamists' machete attack on him at a book fair, which had left him grievously injured.

The first death anniversary of Humayun Azad was observed with respect in Rarhikhal village on Friday, the 12 August 2005.