# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/shamsuzzaman-khan
# Generated: 2026-08-15T06:39:09.927Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/shamsuzzaman-khan"
name: "Shamsuzzaman Khan"
slug: "shamsuzzaman-khan"
description: "Shamsuzzaman Khan was a Bangladeshi academician, folklorist, and writer who served as president of the Bangla Academy from June 2020 until his death in April 2021. He also served as the director general of the academy during 2009–2018. He was notable for editing book series on folk culture of 64 different districts in 64 volumes and collections of folklore series in 114 volumes. He was awarded Bangla Academy Literary Award in 2001, Ekushey Padak in 2009 and Independence Day Award in 2017 by the government of Bangladesh."
tagline: "Folklorist and former Director General of Bangla Academy"
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gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1940-12-29"
deathDate: "2021-04-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  historical:           4.402124
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  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "شمس الزمان خان"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump