Shawkat Osman

Shawkat Osman
শওকত ওসমান

Shawkat Osman's grave
Born Sheikh Azizur Rahman
January 2, 1917
Sabalsinghapur, Hughli, West Bengal, British India (now India)
Died May 14, 1998 (aged 81)
Dhaka
Education MA (Bengali)
Alma mater University of Calcutta
Children Yeafesh Osman
Parent(s) Sheikh Mohammad Yehia (father)
Awards Bangla Academy Award (1962)
Ekushey Padak (1983)

Shawkat Osman (Bengali: শওকত ওসমান; Sheikh Azizur Rahman; 1917 – 1998) was a Bangladeshi novelist and short story writer.

Early life

He was born in Sabalsinghapur, Hughli, West Bengal in 1917. His father was Sheikh Mohammad Yehia.

Education

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.

Life

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 Yafes Osman became the Science and Technology minister of Bangladesh in 2009.

Literature

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.

Awards

Literary works

Novels

  • Boni Adam (1943)
  • Janani (1958)
  • Kritadaser Hasi (1962)
  • Samagam (1967)
  • Chaurasandhi (1968)
  • Raja Upakhyan (1971)
  • Jahannam Haite Biday (1971)
  • Dui Sainik (1973)
  • Nekre Aranya (1973)
  • Patanga Pinjar (1983)
  • Rajsakkhi (1985)
  • Jolangi (1986)
  • Puratan Khanjar (1987)

Short stories

  • Pinjrapol (1358)
  • Junu Apa o Anyanya Galpo (1358)
  • Sabek Kahini (1953)
  • Prostor Phalok (1964)
  • Upolakso (1965)
  • Netrapath (1968)
  • Ubhosringo (1375)
  • Janmo Jadi Tabo Bange (1975)
  • Monib o Tahar Kukur (1986)
  • Iswarer Protidandi (1990)
  • Bigata Kaler Galpo (1986)

Dramas

  • Amlar Mamla (1949)
  • Taskar o Laskar (1953)
  • Baghdader Kabi (1359)
  • Daktar Abdullahr Karkhana (1973)
  • Tinti Chhoto Natak (1989)
  • Purna Swadhinata Churna Swadhinata (1990)

Memoires:

  • Kalratri Khandachitra (1986)
  • Swajan Sangram (1986)

Children Literature:

  • Oten Saheber Banglow (1944)
  • Etimkhana (1955)
  • Chhotoder Nanagalpo (1969)
  • Digbaji (1964)
  • Prize o Anyanyagalpo (1969)
  • Tara Dui Jan (1944)
  • Ksude Socialist (1973)
  • Katha Rachanar Katha (1389)
  • Panchasangi (1975)
  • Itihas Bistarito (1985)
  • Mosquitophone

Translation

  • Panchti Natak ( from Molière 1965)
  • Time Machine ( from H.G. Wells 1959)
  • Panchti Kahini ( from Leo Tolstoy 1959)
  • Spainer Chhotogalpo (1372)
  • Prithibir Rangomonche Manush: Santaner Swikarokti ( Amrita Pritom 1985)
  • Nisso 1948

Editation

  • Fazlul Huquer Galpo (1983)

Non-fiction

  • Samudra Nadi Samarpito (1973)
  • Sangskritir Charai Utrai (1985)
  • Muslim Manoser Rupantar (1986)
  • Bhab Bhasha Bhabna (1974)
  • Nashta tan Ashta Bhan (1986)
  • Haptam Pancham (1957)
  • Pitripurusher Pap (1986)
  • Ebong Tin Mirza (1986)

See also