Shahidullah Kaiser

ABOUT SHAHIDULLAH KAISER

A Bangladeshi writer and journalist, he was assassinated along with other intellectuals during the Bangladesh Liberation War. His best-known literary works include Sareng Bau (The Captain's Wife) and Sangshaptak (The Indomitable Soldiers).

He earned a degree in economics from Presidency College, Kolkata. He joined the East Pakistani Communist Party in the late 1940s.

A key figure in the Bangladesh Language Movement, he won the prestigious Bangla Academy Award in 1962.

He and his wife, Panna Kaiser, had a daughter named Shomi.

He was the brother of novelist and filmmaker Zahir Raihan .