Hayat Saif

A twentieth century modern Bengali poet and literary critic from Bangladesh, Hayat Saif was awarded the ‘Ekushe Padak’ (2018). He is one of the major poets of Bangladesh belonging to the 1960s generation. His publications in Bengali include eight collections of poems apart from two collections of essays and a huge number of poems and articles published in various periodicals. He has been translated in English and Spanish. A career bureaucrat, he retired in 2000.

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