Afsan Chowdhury (born 16 February 1952) is a Bangladeshi

liberation war Wars of national liberation or national liberation revolutions are conflicts fought by nations to gain independence. The term is used in conjunction with wars against foreign powers (or at least those perceived as foreign) to establish separa ...

researcher, columnist and journalist. He received

Bangla Academy Award The Bangla Academy Literary Award ( bn, বাংলা একাডেমি সাহিত্য পুরস্কার; ''Bangla Academy Shahitya Puroshkar''), is given by the Bangla Academy of Bangladesh in recognition of creative genius i ...

in the year 2018 for his contribution to the liberation war literature.

Early life

Chowdhury was born on 16 February 1952 in

Dhaka Dhaka ( or ; bn, ঢাকা, Ḍhākā, ), formerly known as Dacca, is the capital and largest city of Bangladesh, as well as the world's largest Bengali-speaking city. It is the eighth largest and sixth most densely populated city ...

. After completing his higher education from the Department of History in

Dhaka University The University of Dhaka (also known as Dhaka University, or DU) is a public research university located in Dhaka, Bangladesh. It is the oldest university in Bangladesh. The university opened its doors to students on July 1st 1921. Currently it ...

, he started his career in journalism. During his career as a journalist, he served as an editor for

Dhaka Courier The ''Dhaka Courier'' (commonly known as ''the Courier'') is a Bangladeshi English-language news magazine A news magazine is a typed, printed, and published magazine, radio or television program, usually published weekly, consisting of artic ...

, contributed to The Daily Star and also produced a number of

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series. He was also one of the founder Promoter of

United News of Bangladesh United News of Bangladesh (UNB) is a Bangladesh private sector news agency established in 1988. Enayetullah Khan established UNB in the 1980s. It is the first fully digitized private wire service in South Asia. UNB has news exchange agreements w ...

, one of the country's leading news agencies. He is a teacher of

BRAC University BRAC University ( bn, ব্র্যাক বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়, also known as BracU) is a private research university located in Dhaka, Bangladesh. It was established in 2001 as a branch of Sir Fazle Hasan Abed's BRAC ...

and runs the Diversity Studies Cluster there.

References

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