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Sayeed Abubakar is a Bengali poet, essayist, translator and Professor, laureate of Rock Pebbles International Award 2017. Born on September 21,1972 in Jashore district of Bangladesh, he is famous for his two epic-poems namely 'Mujibnama' (2018) and 'Nabinama' (2021) . 'Pronoyer Prathom Pap' (1996) is his most famous poetry-collection which is regarded as a master-piece in Bengali language.


Literary Life:

Sayeed Abubakar started composing poems at a very early age. He was only 11 then. Many of those poems were published in the local newspapers of Jashore and Khulna namely `The Daily Sphulingo', 'The Daily Ranar', 'The Daily Purbanchal', 'The Daily Janmabhumi' and so on. He used to compose 60 to 70 poems each day, for he was determined to defeat Rabindranath Tagore by the number of poems. Reason is that Rabindranath started composing poems at his 8 and he at his 11. It was a peculiar silly attempt of a young poet, no doubt, but it paved the path of his existence as a powerful poet for future. Later, he realized his mistake. But it helped him to be skilled both in rhymes and rhythm at the early stage of his life.

His poem was first published in the Daily Ittefaq, the most popular newspaper of that time, in 1988. He was then a student of class XI at Govt. BL College in Khulna. While in Rajshahi University, he completed composing some of his best lyric-poems which were published in the most popular national newspapers and national literary journals such as ..