Abdur Rouf Choudhury

Abdur Rouf Choudhury (1 March 1929 – 1996) was a Bengali writer. Choudhury was born on 1 March 1929, in Mukimpur, Nabiganj, Habiganj District, Bangladesh (then part of Assam) where his father Azhar Choudhury, a land owner, and his mother Nazmun Nesa Choudhury, a house wife resided. In his contributions to Bengali literature, the writer and philosopher Choudhury depicted a transparent portrait of the modern Bengali's life in abroad. He was a scholar of science, with great intellectual abilities and eloquent in both pen and speech. He had a remarkable openness to modern Western knowledge as well as Eastern knowledge. Choudhury made a lasting contribution to Bengali literature with his novels, travelogue, essays, and his introspective autobiographical and epistolary works.