Abdur Rouf Choudhury
| Abdur Rouf Choudhury | |
|---|---|
| Born |
March 1, 1929 Habiganj District, Assam Province, British India |
| Died | 1996 |
| Nationality | Bangladeshi |
| Occupation | Writer |
Abdur Rouf Choudhury (1 March 1929 – 1996) was a Bengali writer. He was born on 1 March 1929, in Habiganj District, Bangladesh (then part of Assam) where his father Azhar Choudhury, a land owner, and his mother Nazmun Nesa Choudhury, a house wife resided.
In his contributions to Bengali literature, the writer and philosopher Choudhury depicted a transparent portrait of modern Bengali's life in abroad. He was a scholar of science, with great intellectual abilities and eloquent of both pen and speech. He had a remarkable openness to modern Western knowledge as well as Eastern knowledge. Choudhury made a lasting contribution to Bengali literature with his novels, travelogue, essays and his introspective autobiographical and epistolary works.
His novels and short stories were often set against an emergent urban background, but more commonly in cities outside Bangladesh such as London, Bedford, Calcutta, Karachi and Kohat; where the majority of immigrant Bengali resided. Choudhury created his characters from highly diverse backgrounds and developed themes that revolved around the twists and turns of events, the conflicts and contradictions prevailing in the social processes. His characters embraced a new change; death of an old social values which were based on the ideas of corruptions, religious, political, economical; and the rise of the self-freedom, birth of a new society, these immediately preceded the social processes of the present day and hence are vital to identifying and understanding contemporary problems.
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