Zahir Raihan

Zahir Raihan
জহির রায়হান
Born(1935-08-19)19 August 1935
Feni, Bengal, British India He was murdered
Disappeared30 January 1972 (aged 36)
Mirpur, Dhaka, Bangladesh
StatusMissing for 52 years, 10 months and 19 days
Alma materUniversity of Dhaka
Occupations
  • Filmmaker
  • novelist
  • writer
Notable workStop Genocide
Spouses
  • (m. 1961; div. 1968)
  • (m. 1968)
Relatives
Awardsfull list

Mohammad Zahirullah (19 August 1935 – disappeared 30 January 1972), known as Zahir Raihan, was a Bangladeshi novelist, writer and filmmaker. He is most notable for his documentary Stop Genocide (1971), made during the Bangladesh Liberation War.[1] He was posthumously awarded Ekushey Padak in 1977 and Independence Day Award in 1992 by the Government of Bangladesh.[2][3]

  1. ^ Khan 2012
  2. ^ একুশে পদকপ্রাপ্ত সুধীবৃন্দ [Ekushey Padak winners list] (in Bengali). Government of Bangladesh. Retrieved 23 August 2017.
  3. ^ "Independence Day Award" (PDF). Government of Bangladesh. Retrieved 23 September 2016.

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