| Shawkat Osman শওকত ওসমান |
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Shawkat Osman's grave |
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| Born | Sheikh Azizur Rahman 1917 Sabalsinghapur, Hughli, West Bengal, British India |
| Died | 1998 (aged 80–81) Dhaka |
| Education | MA (Bangla) |
| Alma mater | University of Calcutta |
| Notable award(s) | Bangla Academy Award (1962) Ekushey Padak (1983) |
| Children | Yeafesh Osman |
| Relative(s) | Sheikh Mohammad Yehia (father) |
Shawkat Osman (Bengali: শওকত ওসমান; Sheikh Azizur Rahman; 1917 – 1998) was a Bangladeshi novelist and short story writer.
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He was born in Sabalsinghapur, Hughli, West Bengal in 1917. His father was Sheikh Mohammad Yehia.
He was educated at the Aliah University (Anglo-Persian Department), and at the St. Xavier's College, Calcutta from where he graduated in 1938. Thereafter, he would earn an MA degree in Bengali literature from the University of Calcutta in 1941.
Born in what was then West Bengal, Osman migrated to East Pakistan (present-day Bangladesh) after the partition of India in 1947. He started his professional life by teaching at Dhaka College in Dhaka. He also taught at Chittagong Commerce College. He was a servant of Mujibnagar Government in 1971. He died in Dhaka in 1998.
His son Yeafesh Osman became the Science and Technology minister of Bangladesh in 2009
Osman's first prominent novel was Janani. Janani (Mother)is a portrait of the disintegration of a family because of the rural and urban divide. In Kritadaser Hasi (Laugh of a Slave), Osman explores the darkness of contemporary politics and reality of dictatorship.
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