# Daud Haider ~ 21 February 1952 – 26 April 2025

- Link: https://writersworkshopindia.com/2025/05/06/daud-haider-21-february-1952-26-april-2025/
- Published: 2025-05-06T21:29:33+00:00
- Author: shuktara

[⌊A sample cover of Haider's book published by us: crimson coloured handloom sari
with gold embossed logo of Writers Workshop. The title is printed on a white paper
wrapper that runs over the centre of the cover. The border of the sari lines the
right hand margin of the cover.⌉⌊A sample cover of Haider's book published by us:
crimson coloured handloom sari with gold embossed logo of Writers Workshop. The 
title is printed on a white paper wrapper that runs over the centre of the cover.
The border of the sari lines the right hand margin of the cover.⌉[Born in the district
of Pabna (then East Pakistan), **Daud Haider** completed his college education from
Dhaka and Kolkata, graduating from Jadavpur University. He was actively involved
in the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971 and started writing poems, plays and essays
prolifically from his late teens and early twenties. He was the literary editor 
of _Dainik Sambad_ in Dhaka and was forced to leave Bangladesh in 1974 after being
imprisoned the year before for writing a poem that was perceived to be critical 
of religion. He lived in exile at first in Kolkata and then in Berlin.

**Writers Workshop** published his poems in translation, **_Holding an Afternoon
and a Lethal Firearm_** (translated by another author of ours, **Lila Ray**) in 
1981. We share a poem from this collection that feels almost prescient when read
today. Our thoughts are with his loved ones and all his readers who were, and continue
to be, inspired by his writing.

[⌊A scanned image of one of his poems, 'Daud Haider'.⌉⌊A scanned image of one of
his poems, 'Daud Haider'.⌉[