Syed Waliullah was born on August 15, 1922, in Sholashahar, Chittagong, Bengal Presidency, British India, He was a Bangladeshi novelist, short-story writer, and playwright.
He passed his matriculation examination in 1939 from Kurigram High School. He completed his IA from Dhaka Intermediate College in 1941 and his bachelor’s from Ananda Mohan College in Mymensingh in 1943. After not being able to complete his masters in Calcutta, he joined The Statesman newspaper and worked until 1947.
He is often considered the pioneer of existential analysis of the character’s psyche in the literature of Bangladesh. The last two of his three novels, especially ‘ Kando Nadi Kando’, show his mastery in revealing the inner depths of his characters.
He died in Meudon in Paris on October 10, 1971.
