Al Mahmud

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Al Mahmud was a prominent Bangladeshi poet and novelist renowned for his modernist style and powerful depictions of rural life, nationalism, and the Liberation War in Bengali literature.

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Al Mahmud canonical 2

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Bangladeshi writer
novelist
person
poet
awardReceived Bangla Academy Literary Award
Ekushey Padak
birthName Mir Abdus Shukur Al Mahmud
countryOfCitizenship People's Republic of Bangladesh (from East Pakistan)
surface form: Bangladesh
countryOfDeath People's Republic of Bangladesh (from East Pakistan)
surface form: Bangladesh
dateOfBirth 1936-07-11
dateOfDeath 2019-02-15
ethnicGroup Bengali people
gender male
genre novel
poetry
short story
givenName Mir Abdus Shukur Al Mahmud
surface form: Abdus Shukur
influenced contemporary Bangladeshi poets
languageOfWorkOrName Bengali
literaryPeriod post-Partition Bengali literature
literaryTradition Bengali literature
movement modernism
name Al Mahmud self-link
nativeLanguage Bengali
notableFor depictions of the Liberation War in literature
portrayal of nationalism in Bengali poetry
powerful depictions of rural life
notableWork Dinamgantha
Jhalmuri
Kaler Kalosh
Kobi O Kolahol
Lok Lokantor
Pankouri
Sonali Kabin
Upanyas Samagra
occupation editor
journalist
novelist
poet
short story writer
placeOfBirth Brahmanbaria District
then British India
placeOfDeath Dhaka
religion Islam
style modernist
workFocusedOn Bangladesh Liberation War
Bangladeshi nationalism
rural life of Bangladesh
social change in Bengal
wroteAbout Bangladesh Liberation War
surface form: Liberation War of Bangladesh

national identity of Bangladeshis
peasants and rural poor

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Al Mahmud name Al Mahmud self-link