Mourning the death of the Bengali author and publisher who opened a door to world literature

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Mourning the death of the Bengali author and publisher who opened a door to world literature

January 25, 2022

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Global Voices

Collage of covers of books of Masud Rana. Image by author. Qazi Anwar Hussain, noted writer and creator of Bangladesh’s popular spy thriller series “Masud Rana” and the founder of an influential publishing house died on January 19, 2022 at 85 years of age. Better known to readers as QaziDa, he singlehandedly popularised the mystery-thriller genre in Bengali literature from the 1960s. He published translations of world classics covering many genres alongside local stories and gave the Bengali readership a taste of Western, mystery and classic literature from other countries. Hearing the news of…