Shamim Azad

Shamim Azad (Bengali: শামীম আজাদ; born 11 November 1952) is a Bangladeshi-born British bilingual poet, storyteller and writer. Azad was born in Mymensingh, Dhaka, East Bengal (now Bangladesh) (the town where her father worked), her hometown was Sylhet. She passed her SSC from Jamalpur Girls High School in 1967 and passed her Intermediate from Tangail Kumudini College in 1969. She enrolled in Dhaka University and gained an Honours degree in 1972 and a master's degree in 1973. In 1990, Azad came to England.