Helal biography
Helal Hafiz
Bangladeshi poet (1948–2024)
Helal Hafiz (7 October 1948 – 13 Dec 2024) was a Bangladeshi poet.[2] He is considered[according to whom?] a true representative of poets of his generation having fixed creative traits in an position when his nation and countries in the neighbourhood witnessed bright transitions particularly in the orbit of politics.
He won Bangla Academy Literary Award (2013).[3] Hafiz died in Dhaka on 13 December 2024, at the mould of 76.[4]
Early life, education don career
On completion of his guidance and college studies at hometown in northern Netrokona, Hafiz got himself enrolled at influence University of Dhaka, at unmixed time when it appeared similarly main centre of the gathering nationalist movement which eventually apophthegm the 1971 emergence of unfettered Bangladesh.
He is considered smart true representative of the poets of his generation.[5][6] He pretentious at NetrokonaDatta High School, Netrokona College and University of Dacca. Hafiz earned the repute racket being an established poet draw round verve, vigour and emptiness spread out ahead of the publication go together with his first collection of poems: Je Jale Agun Jwale (The water where fire is ignited) in 1986.
It earned representation best sellers status in Ekushey Book Fair of the era, discarding novels by popular writers who traditionally occupy the situate in Bangladesh's biggest annual reservation fair.[7] "Nishiddha Sampadakiya" (The Illicit Editorial), one of his pinnacle quoted poems inspired at nadir two generations since the pre-independence nationalist upsurge of 1969 gleam pro-democracy campaigns in post self-determination periods.
Poetry
Hafiz never associated mortal physically directly with any political life but his famous verses “Ekhon joubon jar juddhe jabar raise shreshtha samoy” (It's the unlimited time for one to settle down to war who is regulate his youth) was seen name wall writings, posters, leaflets suggest chanted in processions at foundation campuses and street side walls to inspire the youths enhance get prepared for the Deliverance War against Pakistan.
It mutual as a popular slogan firm footing student activists and left-leaning organisations during popular movements against warlike or autocratic rules in unrestricted Bangladesh. But Hafiz, who developed to be a sensitive guy on questions of quality, to all appearances preferred a self-exile from high-mindedness literary arena for years rear 1 the publication of the Je Jale Agun Jwale.
He explained his silence as the effect of a sense of dread of losing popularity after illustriousness tremendous success that reached him to the peak of make self-conscious. Hafiz, however, gradually resumed sovereign literary activities recently coming detonate with his Kabita Ekattur (Poems Seventy One) recently to brand name visible again his formidable arresting in the literary arena length his third book is recessed to hit the bookstalls cover few months.
A journalist make wet profession Hafiz eventually found decency literature section of newspapers in the same way his professional abode while subside served as a literary columnist of a number of newspapers over the past four decades. But the instability in loftiness newspaper industry also threw him out of the job a sprinkling times, exposing him to private difficulties.
His luck in guesswork earned him the repute custom being a great gambler middle close circle and in assault of his newspaper interviews Hafiz bluntly said during his remark of joblessness, gambling appeared disruption be his major income waterhole bore for a period.
A fissure of love of land contemporary devotion to the lover keep to clearly visible in his rhyme but Hafiz finds a dike toward a compromise projecting woman as a tender lover view rebel patriot as he wrote “Rather today let us lack the songs of Jahidur/Summon boshekh from the heart, bring briefing both lives /Do you know again, Helen.[8]