Humayun Azad - Revision history

imported>Ser Amantio di Nicolao: Removing from Category:Bangladeshi male writers using Cat-a-lot

2025-11-06T03:09:18Z

Removing from Category:Bangladeshi male writers using Cat-a-lot

← Previous revision		Revision as of 03:09, 6 November 2025
Line 55:		Line 55:
	==Death==		==Death==
	[[File:Grave of Humayun Azad 2.jpg\|thumb\|Grave of Azad at ''Humayun Azad Complex'' in Rarhikhal village]]		[[File:Grave of Humayun Azad 2.jpg\|thumb\|Grave of Azad at ''Humayun Azad Complex'' in Rarhikhal village]]
	On 12 August 2004, Azad was found dead in his apartment in [[Munich]], Germany,<ref name=":0" /> where he had arrived a week earlier to conduct research on the nineteenth century German romantic poet [[Heinrich Heine]],<ref>{{cite news\|url=https://www.dawn.com/news/367509\|title=BD author found dead in Germany\|work=[[Dawn (newspaper)\|Dawn]]\|date=14 August 2004\|archive-date=12 November 2020\|access-date=23 January 2020\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201112193710/https://www.dawn.com/news/367509\|url-status=live}}</ref> several months after the Islamists' machete attack on him at a book fair, which had left him grievously injured.<ref>{{cite news\|title=Humayun Azad found dead in Munich\|url=http://archive.thedailystar.net/2004/08/14/d4081401011.htm\|newspaper=The Daily Star\|date=14 August 2004\|access-date=8 August 2015\|archive-date=20 September 2017\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170920210828/http://archive.thedailystar.net/2004/08/14/d4081401011.htm\|url-status=dead}}</ref> His family demanded an investigation, alleging that the extremists who had attempted the earlier assassination had a role in this death.<ref name=bbc>{{Cite news\|url=~~http~~://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3561184.stm\|title=Top Bangladeshi author found dead\|date=2004-08-13\|work=BBC News\|access-date=2016-04-26\|archive-date=5 April 2016\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160405033915/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3561184.stm\|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news\|url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-101061\|title=Proper probe into death of Humayun Azad demanded\|work=The Daily Star\|date=11 August 2009\|access-date=3 August 2019\|archive-date=3 August 2019\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190803073439/https://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-101061\|url-status=live}}</ref> While alive, Azad had expressed his wish to donate his body to medical college after his death.<ref>{{cite news \|url=http://archive.thedailystar.net/2004/08/14/d4081401011.htm \|title=Humayun Azad found dead in Munich \|work=The Daily Star \|date=14 August 2004 \|access-date=3 August 2019 \|archive-date=20 September 2017 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170920210828/http://archive.thedailystar.net/2004/08/14/d4081401011.htm \|url-status=dead }}</ref> Instead he was buried in Rarhikhal, his village home in Bangladesh, as doctors declined to take his body for medical research, as several days had passed for his body to reach Bangladesh from Germany.<ref>{{Cite news \|url=http://www.ntvbd.com/arts-and-literature/17369/%E0%A6%B9%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%A8-%E0%A6%86%E0%A6%9C%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A6-%E0%A6%AD%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%A4%E0%A6%B0-%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B9%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%87 \|script-title=bn:হুমায়ুন আজাদ, ভেতর-বাহিরে \|access-date=2016-09-07 \|date=2015-08-12 \|work=[[NTV (Bangladeshi TV channel)\|NTV]] \|language=bn \|archive-date=9 September 2019 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190909105652/http://www.ntvbd.com/arts-and-literature/17369/%E0%A6%B9%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%A8-%E0%A6%86%E0%A6%9C%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A6-%E0%A6%AD%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%A4%E0%A6%B0-%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B9%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%87 \|url-status=dead }}</ref> The first death anniversary of Azad was observed with respect in Rarhikhal village on Friday, the 12 August 2005.<ref>{{cite news \|url=https://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/2005/08/10/1st-death-anniversary-of-prof-dr-humayun-azad-friday\|title=1st death anniversary of Prof Dr Humayun Azad Friday \|work=bdnews24.com\|date=10 August 2005 \|access-date=3 August 2019}}</ref>		On 12 August 2004, Azad was found dead in his apartment in [[Munich]], Germany,<ref name=":0" /> where he had arrived a week earlier to conduct research on the nineteenth century German romantic poet [[Heinrich Heine]],<ref>{{cite news\|url=https://www.dawn.com/news/367509\|title=BD author found dead in Germany\|work=[[Dawn (newspaper)\|Dawn]]\|date=14 August 2004\|archive-date=12 November 2020\|access-date=23 January 2020\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201112193710/https://www.dawn.com/news/367509\|url-status=live}}</ref> several months after the Islamists' machete attack on him at a book fair, which had left him grievously injured.<ref>{{cite news\|title=Humayun Azad found dead in Munich\|url=http://archive.thedailystar.net/2004/08/14/d4081401011.htm\|newspaper=The Daily Star\|date=14 August 2004\|access-date=8 August 2015\|archive-date=20 September 2017\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170920210828/http://archive.thedailystar.net/2004/08/14/d4081401011.htm\|url-status=dead}}</ref> His family demanded an investigation, alleging that the extremists who had attempted the earlier assassination had a role in this death.<ref name=bbc>{{Cite news\|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3561184.stm\|title=Top Bangladeshi author found dead\|date=2004-08-13\|work=BBC News\|access-date=2016-04-26\|archive-date=5 April 2016\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160405033915/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3561184.stm\|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news\|url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-101061\|title=Proper probe into death of Humayun Azad demanded\|work=The Daily Star\|date=11 August 2009\|access-date=3 August 2019\|archive-date=3 August 2019\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190803073439/https://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-101061\|url-status=live}}</ref> While alive, Azad had expressed his wish to donate his body to medical college after his death.<ref>{{cite news \|url=http://archive.thedailystar.net/2004/08/14/d4081401011.htm \|title=Humayun Azad found dead in Munich \|work=The Daily Star \|date=14 August 2004 \|access-date=3 August 2019 \|archive-date=20 September 2017 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170920210828/http://archive.thedailystar.net/2004/08/14/d4081401011.htm \|url-status=dead }}</ref> Instead he was buried in Rarhikhal, his village home in Bangladesh, as doctors declined to take his body for medical research, as several days had passed for his body to reach Bangladesh from Germany.<ref>{{Cite news \|url=http://www.ntvbd.com/arts-and-literature/17369/%E0%A6%B9%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%A8-%E0%A6%86%E0%A6%9C%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A6-%E0%A6%AD%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%A4%E0%A6%B0-%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B9%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%87 \|script-title=bn:হুমায়ুন আজাদ, ভেতর-বাহিরে \|access-date=2016-09-07 \|date=2015-08-12 \|work=[[NTV (Bangladeshi TV channel)\|NTV]] \|language=bn \|archive-date=9 September 2019 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190909105652/http://www.ntvbd.com/arts-and-literature/17369/%E0%A6%B9%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%A8-%E0%A6%86%E0%A6%9C%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A6-%E0%A6%AD%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%A4%E0%A6%B0-%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B9%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%87 \|url-status=dead }}</ref> The first death anniversary of Azad was observed with respect in Rarhikhal village on Friday, the 12 August 2005.<ref>{{cite news \|url=https://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/2005/08/10/1st-death-anniversary-of-prof-dr-humayun-azad-friday\|title=1st death anniversary of Prof Dr Humayun Azad Friday \|work=bdnews24.com\|date=10 August 2005 \|access-date=3 August 2019}}</ref>

	==Personal life==		==Personal life==
Line 86:		Line 86:
	[[Category:2004 deaths]]		[[Category:2004 deaths]]
	[[Category:Bangladeshi expatriates in Germany]]		[[Category:Bangladeshi expatriates in Germany]]
	~~[[Category:Bangladeshi male writers]]~~
	[[Category:Bangladeshi atheists]]		[[Category:Bangladeshi atheists]]
	[[Category:Bengali poets]]		[[Category:Bengali poets]]
Line 107:		Line 106:
	[[Category:20th-century linguists]]		[[Category:20th-century linguists]]
	[[Category:Survivors of terrorist attacks]]		[[Category:Survivors of terrorist attacks]]
	[[Category:~~Modernist~~ poets]]		[[Category:Bangladeshi modernist poets]]
	[[Category:Bangladeshi exiles]]		[[Category:Bangladeshi exiles]]
	[[Category:20th-century Bangladeshi novelists]]		[[Category:20th-century Bangladeshi novelists]]

imported>Onel5969: Disambiguating links to Bangla Academy (link changed to Bangla Academy (Bangladesh)) using DisamAssist.

2025-05-12T10:09:28Z

Disambiguating links to Bangla Academy (link changed to Bangla Academy (Bangladesh)) using DisamAssist.

New page

{{Short description|Bangladeshi poet and author (1947 – 2004)}}
{{EngvarB|date=August 2019}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2019}}
{{more citations needed|date=January 2025}}
{{Infobox writer
| name = Humayun Azad
| image = Humayun Azad.jpg
| native_name = হুমায়ুন আজাদ
| native_name_lang = bn
| birth_name = Humayun Kabir
| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1947|4|28}}
| birth_place = [[Munshiganj|Bikrampur]], [[Bengal Presidency|Bengal]], [[British Raj|British India]] (now [[Munshiganj District]], [[Bangladesh]])
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|2004|08|12|1947|04|28}}
| death_place = [[Munich]], [[Bavaria]], [[Germany]]
| resting_place = [[Munshiganj District]]
| occupation = {{hlist|Poet|Novelist|Linguist|Critic|Columnist|Professor}}
| language = Bengali, English
| nationality = Bangladeshi
| education = B.A., M.A. (Bengali literature)<br>PhD (linguistics)
| alma_mater = {{ubl|
[[Dhaka College ]] ([[Higher Secondary Certificate|HSC]]), [[University of Dhaka]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]], [[Master of Arts|MA]])|[[University of Edinburgh]] ([[Doctor of Philosophy|PhD]])}}
| genre =
| notableworks = {{ubl|''Laal Neel Deepabali''|''[[Alaukik Istimar]]''|''[[Chhappanno Hajar Borgomail]]''|''[[Nijer Shonge Nijer Jiboner Modhu]]''}}
| spouse = {{marriage|Latifa Kohinoor|1975}}
| awards = {{ubl|[[Bangla Academy Literary Award]]|[[Ekushey Padak]]}}
}}

'''Humayun Azad''' (28 April 1947 – 12 August 2004) was a Bangladeshi poet, novelist, short-story writer, critic, linguist, columnist and professor of [[Dhaka University]]. He wrote more than 70 titles.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=2004-09-09 |title=A mysterious death |url=https://frontline.thehindu.com/world-affairs/article30224370.ece |access-date=2024-12-28 |website=Frontline |language=en}}</ref> He was awarded the [[Bangla Academy Literary Award]] in 1986 for his contributions to Bengali linguistics.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-07-27|script-title=bn:পুরস্কারপ্রাপ্ত লেখক তালিকা – বাংলা একাডেমি|url=https://banglaacademy.org.bd/?page_id=1315|access-date=2021-06-16|website=Bangla Academy |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200727183141/https://banglaacademy.org.bd/?page_id=1315|archive-date=27 July 2020|language=bn}}</ref> In 2012, the [[government of Bangladesh]] honored him with [[Ekushey Padak]] posthumously for his contributions to [[Bengali literature]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/2012/02/09/humayun-azad-to-get-ekushey-padak |title=Humayun Azad to get Ekushey Padak |work=[[bdnews24.com]] |date=9 February 2012 |access-date=3 August 2019 |archive-date=3 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190803073439/https://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/2012/02/09/humayun-azad-to-get-ekushey-padak |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|date=20 February 2012|title=15 personalities receive Ekushey Padak|url=http://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/2012/02/20/15-personalities-receive-ekushey-padak|newspaper=bdnews24.com|access-date=20 February 2012|archive-date=13 June 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150613034256/http://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/2012/02/20/15-personalities-receive-ekushey-padak|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Alamgir |first=Mohiuddin |date=2022-04-14 |title=Whose pen was mightier than sword |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news/bangladesh/news/whose-pen-was-mightier-sword-3004351 |access-date=2022-04-14 |work=The Daily Star |language=en}}</ref>

==Early life and education==
Azad was born as Humayun Kabir on 28 April 1947 in Rarhikhal village in [[Bikrampur]] which village is now under the [[Sreenagar Upazila|Sreenagar sub-district]] of [[Munshiganj District|Munshiganj district]].<ref name=bpedia>{{cite book |last=Sirajul Islam |year=2012 |editor1-last=Sirajul Islam |editor1-link=Sirajul Islam |title=Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh |edition=Second |publisher=[[Asiatic Society of Bangladesh]]|chapter=Azad, Humayun|chapter-url=http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Azad,_Humayun|editor2-first=Muhammad |editor2-last=Saiful Islam}}</ref> Notable scientist [[Jagadish Chandra Bose]] was born in the same village.<ref name=truncated>{{cite news |last1=Zaman |first1=Mustafa |last2=Hussain |first2=Ahmede |date=1 September 2004 |title=A Truncated Life |url=http://archive.thedailystar.net/magazine/2004/09/01/cover.htm |newspaper=[[The Daily Star (Bangladesh)|The Daily Star]] |access-date=23 November 2017 |archive-date=15 February 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160215105921/http://archive.thedailystar.net/magazine/2004/09/01/cover.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> He passed the secondary examination from Sir Jagadish Chandra Basu Institute in 1962 and higher secondary examination from [[Dhaka College]] in 1964. He earned BA and MA degrees in [[Bengali language]] and literature from the [[University of Dhaka]] in 1967 and 1968 respectively. He obtained his PhD in [[linguistics]] submitting his thesis titled "Pronominalisation in Bangla" from the [[University of Edinburgh]] in 1976.<ref name=bpedia/><ref name=truncated/><ref>{{cite thesis |last=Kabir |first=H. |year=1976 |title=Pronominalization in Bengali |type=PhD |publisher=University of Edinburgh |hdl=1842/17313 }}</ref> Azad changed his surname from Kabir to Azad on 28 September 1988 by the magistrate of [[Narayanganj District]].<ref name=bpedia/>

==Career==
Azad started his career in 1969 by joining the [[Chittagong College]].<ref name="bpedia" /> He joined the [[University of Chittagong]] as a lecturer on 11 February 1970 and [[Jahangirnagar University]] in December.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Istiaque |first=Ahmed |date=28 April 2021 |title=হুমায়ুন আজাদ: বাংলা ভাষার এক নিরন্তর সংগ্রামী অভিযাত্রী |url=https://bangla.thedailystar.net/node/219993 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240401094239/https://bangla.thedailystar.net/node/219993 |archive-date=1 April 2024 |access-date=1 April 2024 |work=[[The Daily Star (Bangladesh)|The Daily Star]] |language=bn}}</ref> He 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.<ref name=bpedia/>

==Literary works==
{{expand section|date=May 2024}}
Azad's first collection of poems, written between 1968 and 1972, was published as ''[[Alaukik Istimar]]'' ({{lit|Unearthly steamer}}) in 1973,<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Asmaul Husna |title=Humayun Azad and the Contemporary Relevance of His Writings for the Bangladeshi Youth |journal=Society and Culture in South Asia |date=July 2022 |volume=8 |issue=2 |page=275 |doi=10.1177/23938617221099532}}</ref> in which year he went to [[Scotland]] for studying [[Ph.D.]] in [[linguistics]] from [[University of Edinburgh]]. He wrote a short story in 1979 called ''Onoboroto Tusharpat'' ({{lit|Heavy snowing}}) which was inspired from his newly-wed life with his Dhaka University class-mate Latifa Kohinoor. In Britain one day, Azad was driving a car with his wife during heavy snowfall which became the main plot of the short story;<ref>{{Cite web |last=Mahamudul |date=2023-04-12 |title=A BIOGRAPHY OF HUMAYUN AZAD – ABIOGRAPHY |url=https://abiography.org/a-biography-of-humayun-azad/ |access-date=2024-12-28 |language=en-US}}</ref> so many years later Azad included this short-story in his 1996 book ''Jadukorer Mrityu'' ({{lit.|Death of the magician}}) which book is the collection of his own-written five short-stories.

Towards the end of the 1980s, he started to write newspaper column focusing on contemporary sociopolitical issues. His commentaries continued throughout the 1990s and were later published as books as they grew in numbers. Through his writings of the 1990s and early 2000s he established himself as a novelist.

In 1992, Azad published the first comprehensive feminist book in Bengali titled ''[[Naree]]'' ({{langx|en|Woman}}). ''Naree'' received both positive and negative reviews as a treatise, it was considered the first full-fledged feminist book after the independence of Bangladesh.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/what-is-feminism-42091|title=What is Feminism|newspaper=The Daily Star|author=Nooha Sabanta Maula|date=18 September 2014}}</ref><ref name="Words"/> In this work Azad mentioned the pro-women contributions of the [[British Raj]]'s two famous Bengali socio-political reformers: [[Raja Rammohan Roy]] and [[Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar]], he criticized [[Rabindranath Tagore]], a famous Bengali poet and Nobel laureate, and [[Bankim Chandra Chatterjee]], a famous Bengali novelist of the 19th century. The work, critical of the patriarchal and male-chauvinistic attitude of society towards women, attracted negative reactions from many Bangladeshi readers. The government of Bangladesh banned the book in 1995. The ban was eventually lifted in 2000, following a legal battle that Azad won in the [[Supreme Court of Bangladesh|High Court]] of the country.<ref name="Words">{{cite news |last=Badrul Ahsan |first=Syed |author-link=Syed Badrul Ahsan |date=2 March 2013 |title=Words that have made a difference |newspaper=The Daily Star |url=http://archive.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=270984 |access-date=2013-06-21 |archive-date=9 November 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131109220547/http://archive.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=270984 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In the year of 1994 he published his first novel which was titled as ''[[Chhappanno Hajar Borgomail]]'' ({{lit|Fifty-six thousand square-miles, the area of Bangladesh}}); the novel was about military rule in Bangladesh in 1980s decade. He got special recognition for his second novel ''[[Sab Kichu Bhene Pare]]'' (1995) which was based on [[interpersonal relationship]] of Bangladeshi society. He wrote ''Ekti Khuner Svapna'' ({{lit|Dreaming of a murder}}), an [[unrequited love]]-based novel where the main male protagonist lives in [[Salimullah Muslim Hall]] of [[Dhaka University]] where Azad lived during his student life, it was Azad's last novel published in 2004 in which year he died. Other important novels are ''Kobi Othoba Dondito Aupurush'' ({{lit|The poet or the condemned eunuch}}) and ''[[Nijer Shonge Nijer Jiboner Modhu]]'' ({{lit|The honey of one's life with himself}}), the first was based on a fictitious late 20th century Bangladeshi male poet's life who is castrated after involving in [[live-in relationship]] with a much younger woman and the latter was inspired by Humayun Azad's own rural life when he was a teen-aged boy. Another noted novel written by Azad was ''Fali Fali Kore Kata Chand'' ({{lit|The split moon}}), where the main female protagonist character Shirin is an educated young woman with self-boastfulness, she engages in adultery, leaves her husband and becomes misandrist.{{Citation needed|date= March 2022}}

Azad also wrote teen-age literature, among them, the discourse-book ''Laal Neel Deepabali'' is noted, this book was written for teen-aged boys and girls as Azad's aim was to teach Bangladeshi adolescent boys and girls about the [[history of Bengali literature]] in short.{{Citation needed|date= March 2022}}

==Assassination attempt==
On 27 February 2004, near the campus of the University of Dhaka during the annual [[Bangla Academy (Bangladesh)|Bangla Academy]] book fair, two assailants, armed with chopper machetes, hacked Azad several times on the jaw, lower part of the neck and hands.<ref name=truncated/> Azad was taken to the nearby [[Dhaka Medical College and Hospital]]. By the order of the then [[Prime Minister of Bangladesh]] [[Khaleda Zia]], Azad was immediately sent to the [[Combined Military Hospital (Dhaka)|Combined Military Hospital (CMH), Dhaka]] for better treatment and later to [[Bumrungrad International Hospital]] in Thailand where he recovered.<ref name=truncated/><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://archive.thedailystar.net/2004/03/07/d40307011212.htm|title=Azad's Health : Family blasts Disinformation|newspaper=The Daily Star|date=2004-03-07|access-date=2017-11-24|archive-date=12 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201112185624/http://archive.thedailystar.net/2004/03/07/d40307011212.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Azad had been fearing for his life ever since excerpts of his novel, ''[[Pak Sar Jamin Sad Bad]]'' ({{lit|[[National anthem of Pakistan|Pakistan's national anthem]]; ''Be Blessed the Sacred Land''}}) were first published in ''[[The Daily Ittefaq|The Daily Ittefaq Newspaper]]''{{'}}s Eid supplement in 2003.<ref name=truncated/> In that novel, he indecorously criticised the political ideologies of the Islamic extremists of Bangladesh. After that book had been published, he started receiving various threats from the Islamist fundamentalists.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/2010/07/29/sayedee-remanded-in-humayun-azad-case |title=Sayedee remanded in Humayun Azad case |work=[[Bdnews24.com]] |date=29 July 2010 |access-date=3 August 2019 |archive-date=3 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190803073443/https://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/2010/07/29/sayedee-remanded-in-humayun-azad-case |url-status=live }}</ref>

A week prior to Azad's assault, [[Delwar Hossain Sayeedi]], one of the [[Bangladesh parliament|members of parliament of Bangladesh]] said in the parliament, that Azad's political satire ''Pak Sar Jamin Sad Bad'' must be banned; he also wanted infliction of the [[Blasphemy law in Bangladesh|blasphemy law of Bangladesh]] for this kind of book.<ref name=truncated/> In 2006, one of the leaders of the fundamentalist organization [[Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh|Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB)]] admitted to the [[Rapid Action Battalion|RAB]] interrogators that his operatives carried out the attack on writer Azad, as well as two other murders, bomb blasts, and [[Mymensingh cinema bombings|2002 attacks on cinemas]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://archive.thedailystar.net/2006/06/05/d6060501128.htm|title=JMB also killed writer of Tangail, Militant commander confesses in court|newspaper=The Daily Star|date=5 June 2006|access-date=3 August 2019|archive-date=10 September 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180910214324/http://archive.thedailystar.net/2006/06/05/d6060501128.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Death==
[[File:Grave of Humayun Azad 2.jpg|thumb|Grave of Azad at ''Humayun Azad Complex'' in Rarhikhal village]]
On 12 August 2004, Azad was found dead in his apartment in [[Munich]], Germany,<ref name=":0" /> where he had arrived a week earlier to conduct research on the nineteenth century German romantic poet [[Heinrich Heine]],<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.dawn.com/news/367509|title=BD author found dead in Germany|work=[[Dawn (newspaper)|Dawn]]|date=14 August 2004|archive-date=12 November 2020|access-date=23 January 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201112193710/https://www.dawn.com/news/367509|url-status=live}}</ref> several months after the Islamists' machete attack on him at a book fair, which had left him grievously injured.<ref>{{cite news|title=Humayun Azad found dead in Munich|url=http://archive.thedailystar.net/2004/08/14/d4081401011.htm|newspaper=The Daily Star|date=14 August 2004|access-date=8 August 2015|archive-date=20 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170920210828/http://archive.thedailystar.net/2004/08/14/d4081401011.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> His family demanded an investigation, alleging that the extremists who had attempted the earlier assassination had a role in this death.<ref name=bbc>{{Cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3561184.stm|title=Top Bangladeshi author found dead|date=2004-08-13|work=BBC News|access-date=2016-04-26|archive-date=5 April 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160405033915/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3561184.stm|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-101061|title=Proper probe into death of Humayun Azad demanded|work=The Daily Star|date=11 August 2009|access-date=3 August 2019|archive-date=3 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190803073439/https://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-101061|url-status=live}}</ref> While alive, Azad had expressed his wish to donate his body to medical college after his death.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://archive.thedailystar.net/2004/08/14/d4081401011.htm |title=Humayun Azad found dead in Munich |work=The Daily Star |date=14 August 2004 |access-date=3 August 2019 |archive-date=20 September 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170920210828/http://archive.thedailystar.net/2004/08/14/d4081401011.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> Instead he was buried in Rarhikhal, his village home in Bangladesh, as doctors declined to take his body for medical research, as several days had passed for his body to reach Bangladesh from Germany.<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.ntvbd.com/arts-and-literature/17369/%E0%A6%B9%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%A8-%E0%A6%86%E0%A6%9C%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A6-%E0%A6%AD%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%A4%E0%A6%B0-%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B9%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%87 |script-title=bn:হুমায়ুন আজাদ, ভেতর-বাহিরে |access-date=2016-09-07 |date=2015-08-12 |work=[[NTV (Bangladeshi TV channel)|NTV]] |language=bn |archive-date=9 September 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190909105652/http://www.ntvbd.com/arts-and-literature/17369/%E0%A6%B9%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%A8-%E0%A6%86%E0%A6%9C%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A6-%E0%A6%AD%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%A4%E0%A6%B0-%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B9%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%87 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The first death anniversary of Azad was observed with respect in Rarhikhal village on Friday, the 12 August 2005.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/2005/08/10/1st-death-anniversary-of-prof-dr-humayun-azad-friday|title=1st death anniversary of Prof Dr Humayun Azad Friday |work=bdnews24.com|date=10 August 2005 |access-date=3 August 2019}}</ref>

==Personal life==
Azad met his future wife Latifa Kohinoor in 1968 during his M.A. studies at the University of Dhaka. They married on 12 October 1975.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://archive.thedailystar.net/2004/02/28/d4022801011.htm|title=Humayun Azad stabbed, fighting for life|work=The Daily Star|date=28 February 2004|access-date=3 August 2019|archive-date=25 September 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180925142114/http://archive.thedailystar.net/2004/02/28/d4022801011.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=truncated/> Together they had two daughters, Smita and Mauli, and one son, Anannya.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://archive.thedailystar.net/2004/08/14/d4081401011.htm|title=Humayun Azad found dead in Munich|newspaper=The Daily Star|date=14 August 2004|access-date=2017-11-24|archive-date=20 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170920210828/http://archive.thedailystar.net/2004/08/14/d4081401011.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> Kohinoor died from cancer on 5 September 2024 in Dhaka.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Humayun Azad's wife Latifa Kohinoor dies |url=https://en.samakal.com/bangladesh/170832800/humayun-azads-wife-latifa-kohinoor-dies |access-date=2025-01-14 |work=Samakal |language=en}}</ref>

==Bibliography==
{{Main|Humayun Azad bibliography}}

===Notable books===
*''[[Alaukik Istimar]]'', collection of poems (1973)
*''[[Pronominalization in Bengali]]'' (1983)
*''[[Naree]]'', treatise on feminism (1992)
*''[[Chhappanno Hajar Borgomail]]'', (1994), novel on martial law in Bangladesh
*''[[Sab Kichu Bhene Pare]]'' (1995)
*''[[Nijer Shonge Nijer Jiboner Modhu]]'' (2000)
*''[[Pak Sar Jamin Sad Bad]]'' (2004)

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*{{IMDb name|9127047}}
*{{Banglapedia}}

{{Authority control}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Azad, Humayun}}
[[Category:Humayun Azad| ]]
[[Category:1947 births]]
[[Category:2004 deaths]]
[[Category:Bangladeshi expatriates in Germany]]
[[Category:Bangladeshi male writers]]
[[Category:Bangladeshi atheists]]
[[Category:Bengali poets]]
[[Category:Bengali-language novelists]]
[[Category:People from Bikrampur]]
[[Category:Dhaka College alumni]]
[[Category:University of Dhaka alumni]]
[[Category:Alumni of the University of Edinburgh]]
[[Category:Academic staff of the University of Chittagong]]
[[Category:Academic staff of Jahangirnagar University]]
[[Category:Academic staff of the University of Dhaka]]
[[Category:Linguists from Bangladesh]]
[[Category:Bangladeshi male poets]]
[[Category:Bangladeshi male novelists]]
[[Category:Bangladeshi feminist writers]]
[[Category:20th-century Bangladeshi poets]]
[[Category:20th-century Bangladeshi male writers]]
[[Category:Recipients of the Ekushey Padak]]
[[Category:Recipients of Bangla Academy Award]]
[[Category:20th-century linguists]]
[[Category:Survivors of terrorist attacks]]
[[Category:Modernist poets]]
[[Category:Bangladeshi exiles]]
[[Category:20th-century Bangladeshi novelists]]