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ear Ud HUMAYUN AHMED born November 13, 1948. Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. Started writing fiction in 1972. Gifted with a unique prose-style -- simple and unostentatious, subtle and spontaneous. Most prolific, most popular. The leading writer of today's Bangladesh. Honours include Bangla Academy Literary Award, Bangladesh Shishu Academy Award, Michael Madhusudan Medal, Osmani Memorial Medal, Alakta Literary Award, Humayun Qadir Memorial Award etc, Recently visited University of lowa, USA as ‘Honorary Fellow in Writing . Married to Gultekin. Three daughters Nova, Sheela, Bipasha and a son, Nuhash. IN BLISSFUL HELL (Nandita Narake), starting with the theme of sex and adolescence, tolerance and violence, balance and ambivalence finally unfurls a twilight zone of complex human existence, of Blake's innocence and experience. The characters mostly come from middle class, their hopes are enormous, their dreams are large, but all their struggles end in farce. In Blissful Hell, the novel Humayun made his debut with, is still a best-seller, rightly called 'a contemporary classic’ that stood the test of Time and Aesthetics. ae ay SOMO! 48 First Published S April 1993 Baistiakh 4X {BBA Banglabazar Dhaka 1100 Computer compose at Cox’s Computers 34 Azimpur Dhaka 1205 Cover design by Samar Majumdar Price Inland Tk. 70.00 * Abroad $ 5 ISBN 984-458-045-5 About the translator & MOHAMMAD NURUL HUDA born on September 30, 1949 at Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. At present working as Deputy Dj Bangla Academy, Dhaka. Y A Jeading poet of the coufma Also a critic, a translator, an editor and a research worker. Started writing since mid-sixties.

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