Syed Manzoorul Islam, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Syed Manzoorul Islam

Bangladeshi academic, writer, novelist, translator, columnist, and critic

Date of Birth: 18-Jan-1951

Place of Birth: Sylhet, Sylhet Division, Bangladesh

Profession: translator, author, academic

Nationality: Pakistan, Bangladesh

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Syed Manzoorul Islam (born 18 January 1951) is a Bangladeshi critic, writer and a former professor of Dhaka University.
As a literary critic, he has written criticism on writers including Michael Madhusudan Dutt, Kazi Nazrul Islam, Sudhindranath Dutta, Samar Sen, and Shamsur Rahman.
He received a Bangla Academy Literary Award in 1996, and his 2005 short stories collection Prem o Prarthanar Galpo was Prothom Alo's book of the year.
He became the president of PEN Bangladesh in January 2018.