Maniruddin Yusuf is a Bangladeshi writer, novelist, dramatist, editor and translator. He composed 28 books in poetry, novel, drama, composition, biography, teenage literature, translation and autobiography. To translate the Persian epic Ferdowsi’s Shahnama in Bengal, he was called ‘Ferdousi of Bengal’. In 1978 Bangla Academy Award and the highest civilian honor given by the posthumous Bangladesh government in 1993 was awarded to Ekushey Padak.
Maniruddin Yusuf was born on February 13, 1919 in the village of Tahrell Jawar, British India Kishoreganj sub-division. Her father, Misbahuddin Ahmed and mother Sanjida Khatun Babu Moulvi Misbah, landlord of Baulai village of Kishoreganj. His ancestors were from the family of the Mughals. During the time of Emperor Akbar, Karim Khan was sent as an Amir of Bengal, he was the successor of Yusuf. He started his education with an Urdu-language teacher as his native language was Urdu. After primary education, he was admitted to the local Central English School. Later he studied at Kishoreganj Ramanananda High School and Mymensingh Zilla School. He passed the 1938 Entrance examination from Zilla School and passed IA from Dhaka Intermediate College in 1940. After that he was admitted to the Bangla Department at Dhaka University but without the final examination, he went to Delhi via Kolkata.
After going to Delhi, Yusuf went to Mumbai with a job and returned to the country after nine months of stay. Then he did business for a few days. Coming to Dhaka, the Daily Observer first and later worked as a daily newspaper. In the end, his childhood friend, journalist Syed Nuruddin, joined the post of Public Relations Department of Agriculture Development Corporation, ADC. He is the editor of the Agricultural Development Corporation publication ‘Krishi Samar’. Retirement in 1979
Maniruddin Yusuf wrote a book of poetry in the name of the student life suburb. Later, in the poetry of his poems, the night is not the Kalpi Peacock, the bots on the water article, a flock of foot, the progress poem of Maniruddin Yusuf is noteworthy. In 2013, Belal Chowdhury’s editorship on this poem was completed in the night of his first published drama. It shows the recent social reality picture. His second and third novel, Panas Kantha, and his sons, were described in the eleven years of Bangladesh’s independence war and post-war tales. In 2003, Abdul Hye Shikdar published his novels and published the novels. His special skills in the translation of Persian and English works. He translated Bengali poet Poet Iqbal and Galib Poetry. The Persian epic Ferdowsi also translated the epic Shahnama. The first volume of 1977 and the second volume was published in 1979. After his death in 1991, Shahnma was published in six volumes of Bangla Academy.
Death
Maniruddin Yusuf died on 11 February 1987 in Suhrawardy Hospital in Dhaka.
