Prof Syed Manzoorul Islam
Syed Manzoorul Islam (b. 18 January 1951) is a critic, writer and Emeritus 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 Bangla Academy Literary Award in 1996, and his 2005 short stories collection Prem O Prarthanar Galpa was Prothom Alo’s book of the year. He became the president of PEN Bangladesh in January 2018.