Shahid Akhand

Shahid Akhand (born 1935), is a Bangladeshi author and novelist of Bengali literature. He began writing in the second decade after the Partition of Bengal (1947). His novel Panna Holo Sobuj depicted urban middle-class life. In 1978, he won a Bangla Academy Literary Award for a short story. In 2008, a play adapted from his novel Bhetorer Manush was screened on Bangladesh Television. He lives in Bangladesh, and has been blind for a few years. He has three daughters and a son.