Popular writer Humayun Ahmed has been appointed special adviser to the Bangladesh Mission in the United Nations, reports a private television channel.
“I am surprised but happy,” said the author, who is now staying in the USA for treatment of cancer, in his reaction. Talking to Channel i yesterday, he said, “The government knows very well that this is nothing but giving me an honour. But, since I am sick, it seems I will not be able to carry out the huge responsibility I have been given.”
A full-time writer and movie-maker, Humayun Ahmed was a professor of the Department of Chemistry at Dhaka University.
After publication of his first novel Nondito Noroke, Humayun Ahmed emerged as one of the most prominent novelists and story-writers of Bangla literature in the 1970s.
He also achieved success as a screenwriter for television since the late 1980s. In the early 1990s, he entered the showbiz industry and proved himself as a successful filmmaker.
Humayun received Ekushey Podok in 1994, National Film Award and many other awards.
-With The Daily Star input
