Shahaduz Zaman was born on born 1960, in Dhaka, Bangladesh. He is a medical anthropologist and a trained physician.
He attended Mirzapur Cadet College for his high school studies. He studied medicine at Chittagong Medical College. Later on, he studied public health and obtained a doctorate in medical anthropology from the University of Amsterdam.
He published over 30 books in different genres such as short stories, novels, travelogues, columns, and essays on contemporary issues. He won the Bangla Academy Literary Award in 2016 in the fiction category.
