Ahmed Sofa (30 June 1943 - 28 July 2001) was a Bangladeshi poet, novelist, writer, critic, translator and public intellectual. He wrote novels, poetry and non-fiction essays. Sofa helped establishing Bangladesh Lekhak Shibir (Bangladesh Writers' Camp) in 1970 to "organise liberal writers in order to further the cause of the progressive movement".
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Early life
Sofa was born at Gachbaria in Chittagong district. He received his secondary and higher secondary education in Chittagong. He earned his master's in political science from the University of Dhaka. He started writing in the 1960's through stories, novels, poems, essays, critical works, translations, juvenile literature, and compositions. He moved to Dhaka in 1962. In 1976, he worked on his doctoral dissertation, under the supervision of his supervisor Abdur Razzaq, on the growth of a middle class among the Bengali Muslims.
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Career
Sofa published his first novel Surja Tumi Sathi in 1967. He promoted the works of new writers. In 1972, he helped publishing Nondito Noroke, the first novel by Humayun Ahmed.
In 1975, Sofa published two volumes namely Jallad Somoi (Time, the Hangman) and Dukkher Diner Doha (Dog Day Songs).
Sofa translated Goethe's Faust (part one).
Works
- Novels
- Surya Tumi Sathi (Sun, you are my companion, 1967)
- Uddhar (Rescue, 1975)
- Ekjan Ali Kenaner Utthan Patan (The rise and fall of one Ali Kenan, 1989)
- Alatachakra (A circle of fire, 1990)
- Obkar (The chest-note, 1993)
- Gabhibrttanta (Accounts of cows, 1994)
- Ardhek Nari Ardhek Ishvari (Half woman and half goddess, 1996)
- Puspabrksa O Bihabgapurana (Flower tree and the accounts of birds, 1996)
- Short stories
- Patheo (1972)
- Poems
- Jallad Samay (Time, the executioner)
- Ekti Prabin Bater Kachhe Prarthana (A prayer to an old banyan tree)
- Lenin Ghumobe Ebar (Lenin will now sleep)
- Essays
- Buddhibrttir Natun Binyas (New exercise of intellect, 1973)
- Babgali Musalmaner Man (The Mind of the Bengali Muslims, 1976)
- On the Issue of Bangladesh's Upper Class and a Social Revolution (1992)
- Sipahi Yuddher Itihas (History of the Sepoy movement)
- Yadyapi Amar Guru (He is still my teacher)
Death and legacy
Sofa died of cardiac arrest on 28 July 2001 in a hospital in Dhaka. He was buried in Martyred Intellectuals' Graveyard.
"Ahmed Sofa Rastroshobha" along with Centre for Asian Art and Culture organize the Ahmed Sofa Memorial Lecture at the University of Dhaka.
References
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