Nurul Momen was a Bangladeshi playwright, educator, director, broadcast personality, orator, humorist, dramatist, academician, satirist, belletrist, essayist, columnist, translator and poet.
14 Facts About Nurul Momen
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Nurul Momen served as a faculty member in the capacities of professor and dean at the faculty of Law in the University of Dhaka.
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Nurul Momen is called "Father of Bangladeshi theatre" and "Natyaguru" of Bangladesh.
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Nurul Momen was awarded the Bangla Academy Award in 1961.
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Nurul Momen was honoured by the People's Republic of Bangladesh with the Ekushey Padak in 1978.
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Nurul Momen's father was Nurul Arefin, a physician and Zamindar in Alfadanga, of the then Jessore district.
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Rather than continuing to practice law even before the partition of India, Nurul Momen joined the faculty of Law at the Dhaka University in 1945.
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Nurul Momen encouraged Sheikh Mujibur Rahman to read the works of George Bernard Shaw and Bertrand Russell.
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Nurul Momen encouraged Munier Chowdhury to get interested in theater and become a playwright.
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Nurul Momen encouraged him to read George Bernard Shaw and got many other students interested in theatre.
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From 1948 until 1951 Nurul Momen was on leave from the university, undergoing higher studies in England and graduating in law from London University.
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Nurul Momen encouraged the students to demand for the Bangla language.
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Natyaguru Nurul Momen sometimes contributed two articles for the same newspaper at the same time using the penname "Magus".
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In 1936 Nurul Momen married Amena Nurul Momen, nee Khatun.