# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/humayun-azad
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:04:34.172Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/humayun-azad"
name: "Humayun Azad"
slug: "humayun-azad"
description: "Humayun Azad was a Bangladeshi poet, novelist, short-story writer, critic, linguist, columnist and professor of Dhaka University. He wrote more than 70 titles. He was awarded the Bangla Academy Literary Award in 1986 for his contributions to Bengali linguistics. In 2012, the government of Bangladesh honored him with Ekushey Padak posthumously for his contributions to Bengali literature."
tagline: "Bangladeshi author, poet, scholar and linguist. (1947–2004)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/60/Humayun_Azad.jpg"
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1947-04-28"
deathDate: "2004-08-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump