Anisuzzaman

Anisuzzaman
Anisuzzaman in 2016
Native name	আনিসুজ্জামান
Born	(1937-02-18) 18 February 1937 (age 80) Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India
Nationality	Bangladeshi
Occupation	Activist, author, administrator
Relatives	Sheikh Abdur Rahim (grandfather)
Awards	Bangla Academy Award Ekushey Padak Padma Bhushan Independence Day Award

Anisuzzaman (born 18 February 1937) is a Bangladeshi academic of Bengali literature.

Anisuzzaman was born in Kolkata in 1937. He had a obtained his bachelor's in 1956, master's in 1957 and Ph.D. in 1962. He was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Chicago during 1964–65 and a Commonwealth Academic Staff fellow at the University of London (1974–75).

Anisuzzaman served as a professor of Bengali at the University of Dhaka. From 1978 to 1983 he was associated with research projects of the United Nations University. He was a visiting fellow at the University of Paris (1994), North Carolina State University (1995) and University of Calcutta (2010), and a visiting professor at the Visva-Bharati (2008–09, 2011).

Anisuzzaman was a member of the Planning Commission to the Government of Bangladesh during the Bangladesh liberation war and a member of the National Education Commission set up by the government after liberation. He was responsible for the Bengali language part of the Constitution of Bangladesh adopted in 1972. He served as Chairman of the Trustee Board of the Nazrul Institute and is currently serving as the second-term President of the Bangla Academy since 2011.

Anisuzzaman took part in the Language Movement (1952), participated in Mass Uprising (1969), taken part in the War of Liberation (1971) and was the Secretary of Bangladesh Teachers’ Association in 1971. He was involved in the anti-autocracy movement (1990).

In 2014, the Government of India conferred the Padma Bhushan, third highest civilian honor, on him; the first such award for any Bangladeshi.