Qazi Anwar Husain is an author

Author

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, publisher and translator from Bangladesh

Bangladesh

Bangladesh , officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh is a sovereign state located in South Asia. It is bordered by India on all sides except for a small border with Burma to the far southeast and by the Bay of Bengal to the south...

. He has used pen names like Bidyut Mitra. Credit goes to him for introducing popular thrillers writing as well as institutionalized publication of paperback

Paperback

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 fictions in Bangla.

Family

Qazi Anwar Husain's father was a well known scientist

Scientist

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 and author

Author

An author is broadly defined as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created. Narrowly defined, an author is the originator of any written work.-Legal significance:...

, Qazi Motahar Hossain

Qazi Motahar Hossain

Qazi Motahar Hossain is a famous Bangladeshi author, scientist, statistician and journalist. He is also renowned for his unique style of literature. He had intimate friendship with poet Kazi Nazrul Islam, Kazi Abdul Odud and many other eminent figures...

, a national professor. Anwar grew up in a literary environment. Some of the more famous members of his family includes his late brother Qazi Mahbub Husain, sister Zobaida Mirza(professor/author), his older sister Sanjida Khatun (singer/author), his younger sister Fahmida Khatun (singer/author), sister Mahmuda Khatun (singer), sons Qazi Maimur Husain and Qazi Shahnur Husain. Anwar Husain's wife is a famous lalon singer Farida Yasmin, older sister of singer Sabina Yasmin.

Background

He got his Master's Degree

Master's degree

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 in Bangla literature and language from the University of Dhaka

University of Dhaka

The University of Dhaka is the oldest university in Bangladesh. It is a multi-disciplinary research university and is among the top universities in the region. Established on July 21, 1921, as per the Government of India Act, 1920, it was modelled on the Universities in England and soon gained...

. As a graduation gift, he requested a printing press of his father. He then proceeded to lock himself in his room for hours at length. In the middle of 1960, he started a paperback

Paperback

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 publishing house called Sheba Prokashoni

Sheba Prokashoni

Sheba Prokashoni is a well-known publishing house in Dhaka, Bangladesh. It was founded by Qazi Anwar Hussain. Sheba's books have enjoyed great popularity among young Bangladeshi readers, and it is particularly notable for its accessible translations of Western literary classics into the Bengali...

 with four writers, three of whom were his own pen-names. The publishing house is credited with publishing works of world literature, as well as original work. It has a long tradition

Sheba Prokashoni, the publishing house

At first, Sheba meant Segun Bagicha, as well as service. Later, It meant only service. In 1971, the Pakistani militants burnt sheba. Sheba gave birth to many successful writers as Rakib Hasan, Asaduzzaman, Masud Mahmud, Khosru Chowdhury, Tipu Kibriya, Anish Das Opu and many others. Sheba's Sister concern is Projapoti, the hard bound publishere.

Masud Rana Books

He created the spy-thriller

Spy fiction

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 series Masud Rana

Masud Rana

Masud Rana is a fictional character created in 1966 by writer Qazi Anwar Hussain, who featured him in over 400 novels. Hussain created the adult spy-thriller series Masud Rana, at first modeled after James Bond, but expanded widely. So far 413 books have been published in this series which has...

, modeled after James Bond

James Bond

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. There are more than 400 books as of 2008 in this series which has gained a lot of popularity in Bangladesh.

Rana, a spy, a former Major

Major

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 of the Bangladesh Army

Bangladesh Army

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 conducts missions all over the world. His boss is Major General

Major General

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Rahat Khan of Bangladesh Counter Intelligence. Rana works with Rana Agency.

• ধ্বংস পাহাড় (The Destructive Hill) (In Urdu, Mout Ka Tila) [Rana-1]
• ভারতনাট্যম[Rana-2]
• স্বর্ণমৃগ (The Golden Deer) [Rana-3]
• দুঃসাহসিক [Rana-4]
• মৃত্যুর সাথে পাঞ্জা
• দুর্গম দুর্গ
• শত্রু ভয়ংকর
• সাগর সঙ্গম
• রানা!সাবধান!!
• বিস্মরণ
• রত্নদ্বীপ
• নিল আতঙ্ক
• কায়রো
• মৃত্যুপ্রহর
• গুপ্তচক্র
• মূল্য এক কোটি টাকা মাত্র
• রাত্রি অন্ধকার
• জাল
• অটল সিংহাসন
• মৃত্যুর ঠিকানা
• খ্যাপা নর্তক
• শয়তানের দূত
• এখনও ষড়যন্ত্র
• প্রমান কই
• বিপদজনক
• রক্তের রঙ
• অদৃশ্য শত্রু
• পিশাচ দ্বীপ(The Island of Evil), a short but horrifying work
• Kuuu, 71 based work having psycho-game
• আই লাভ ইউ ম্যান(I Love You, Man), a 3 part novel, according to many, the best of Rana
• অগ্নিপুরুষ (Based on The Man On Fire, now a movie). It has two parts. Many readers call this his best. Humayun Ahmed's only 'based novel', Omanush was also written on the main book.
• আবার সেই দুঃস্বপ্ন
• সেই উ সেন
• আবার উ সেন
• কালপুরুষ
• মুক্তবিহঙ্গ (A story of love, faith and friendship. One of the very best of Rana)

Self developing works

ent which are as follows:
shothik Niyome Lekhapora (The Right Way of Read Writing) most popular.

• Bayam; Dhumpan Tyag E Attoshommohon; Khali Haate Attorokkha

Other works

Anwar started the Kuasha series of detective/adventure books, which consists of 76 books.

He wrote some novelettes, short stories.