Anwara Syed Haq

Anwara Syed Haq (2015)

Anwara Syed Haq ( Bengali আনোয়ারা সৈয়দ হক Ānoẏārā Saiẏad Hak ; born November 5, 1940 in Jessore ) is a Bangladeshi author best known for her prose . She has received several awards for her writing, including the Ekushey Padak, the second highest civil order in Bangladesh , in 2019 .

life and work

Anwara Syed Haq grew up in a conservative, religious family, she wore the hijab as a teenager . She describes her youth as "pale" (pale) and devoid of creativity. Books were mainly available in the form of textbooks. In 1959 she moved to Dhaka to study medicine, the subject her father wanted, not her own inclination. There she discovered the works of British , French and Russian authors. So she read some Virginia Woolf , Arthur Rimbaud, and Voltaire . But she also read works by Bangladeshi authors, such as the novels Syed Shamsul Haqs . She was very interested in his writing, so she began a penfriendship with him, which soon developed into a close personal relationship. The two married in November 1965.

Anwara Syed Haq wrote more than 25 novels , five volumes of poetry , ten collections of short stories , eight collections of essays , three autobiographical books , two collections of travel stories and 40 stories for children and young people. She brings her knowledge and experience from her professional activity as a psychiatrist into her writing. Many of her lyrics are set in Dhaka and London, two cities with which Anwara Syed Haq is familiar from personal experience. In her work, Anwara Syed Hay deals with the role of women in Bangladeshi society, especially its physical and psychological effects.

Awards

• 2010 Bangla Academy Award
• 2019 Ekushey Padak

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Anwara Syed Haq: The experimenter and innovator - Art & Culture - observerbd.com. Retrieved August 9, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Anwara Syed Haq - Comma Press. Retrieved August 9, 2020 . 
3. ↑ Anwara Syed Haq (b. 1940). In: parabas.com. Retrieved August 9, 2020 .