Mohammad Moniruzzaman | |
Native Name: | মোহাম্মদ মনিরুজ্জামান |
Native Name Lang: | bn |
Birth Date: | 15 August 1936 |
Birth Place: | Khorki para, Jessore District, Bengal Presidency, British India |
Death Place: | Dhaka, Bangladesh |
Occupation: | Professor, lyricist, writer, poet |
Alma Mater: | University of Dhaka |
Awards: | full list |
Mohammad Moniruzzaman (15 August 1936 – 3 September 2008) was a Bangladeshi writer, poet, professor, freedom fighter and lyricist.[1]
Moniruzzaman received his BA in 1958 and his MA in 1959 from University of Dhaka. In 1969, he got his Ph.D. on Hindu-Muslim relationship in modern Bengali poetry.[1] He joined the University's Department of Bengali as a teaching advisor in 1959 and became a lecturer in 1962. He became a professor in 1975 and chair of the department in 1978. He was also district governor of the Rotary club (1986-1987) as well as a member of the Asiatic Society of Bangladesh.