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Ahmed Sofa

Bangladeshi writer, thinker, novelist, poet, and public intellectual (1943-2001) · Bangladesh · On the map · Writers · Died at 58

Ahmed Sofa was a Bangladeshi writer, thinker, novelist, poet, philosopher and public intellectual. Sofa is considered by many, including National Professor Abdur Razzaq and Salimullah Khan, to be the most important Bengali Muslim writer after Mir Mosharraf Hossain and Kazi Nazrul Islam.

Ahmed Sofa is read about 12 times a day, in 15 languages.

A typical day, 30 days to 30 October 2026

The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 142 days, one point a day.

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A writer by occupation, Sofa wrote 18 non-fiction books, 8 novels, 4 collections of poems, 2 collections of short stories, and several books in other genres.

Country
Bangladesh
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1943 to 2001 · aged 58