Shahriar Kabir was born on 20 November 1950, in Feni district, Chittagong Division, East Pakistan, and now in Bangladesh. He is a Bangladeshi journalist, filmmaker, and human rights activist.He attended St Gregory's School. He passed his higher secondary exam at Jagannath College. He was a student of the Department of Bengali at the University of Dhaka.He is the author of more than 70 books focusing on human rights, communism, fundamentalism, history, and the Bangladesh War of Independence. He was awarded Bangla Academy Literary Award in 1995.
