Hasan Ferdous

Renowned Columnist and Journalist

A resident of the United States since 1989, he worked at the United Nations Headquarters until 2014. Studied English literature at Dhaka University, got a master's degree in international relations from Kiev University, Ukraine. Worked as a journalist in Dhaka in Dainik Sangbad, Dhaka Courier and Sachitra Thanthi.

He has written columns in Bangladesh Times, Bangladesh Today, Sunday Star, Daily Star and Prothom Alo. Edited the now defunct English monthly Voice of Bangladesh published from New York for a few years. The number of books published is more than twenty. Notable among them are: The Face of a Friend, the Shadow of an Enemy (First, 2011), Soviet Friends in the War of Liberation (First, 2013), Seventy-One, Where It Begins (Time, 2016), War Behind the War (Etc., 2019), Rabindranath, Gitanjali and the Two Harriets (Prthma, 2015), Scenery (Sandesh, 2010), Morality and Literature (Bangla Academy, 2018), Civic Time and Contextual Thought (Sahitya Prakash, 1997), Rain Tales (Papyrus, 2005), Picasso's Three Women (Bengal Publications , 2013), Kherokhata of New York (Ananya, 2017).