Rashid Karim

Rashid Karim (14 August 1925 – 26 November 2011) was a Bangladeshi novelist. Karim completed his BA from Calcutta Islamia College. His family moved to Dhaka after the partition in 1947. He began writing at fourteen and published his first story in 1942. After a long break, Karim resumed writing in 1961, and his first novel, Uttam Purush, earned him the prestigious Adamjee Award. His fame peaked with the publication of his epic novel Amar Jato Glani in 1973, and he continued to write and publish regularly thereafter. Karim battled paralysis for nineteen years and died in Dhaka on 26 November 2011. Karim was born in Kolkata, West Bengal in 1925. He completed his BA from the Calcutta Islamia College (now Maulana Azad College), an affiliated college of the University of Calcutta. After the partition of the sub-continent in 1947, his family moved to Dhaka.