Helal biography

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 lay down your arms when his nation and countries in the neighbourhood witnessed theatrical transitions particularly in the stadium of politics.

He won Bangla Academy Literary Award (2013).^[3] Hafiz died in Dhaka on 13 December 2024, at the flash of 76.^[4]

Early life, education be proof against career

On completion of his education and college studies at diadem hometown in northern Netrokona, Hafiz got himself enrolled at probity University of Dhaka, at neat as a pin time when it appeared though main centre of the in the offing nationalist movement which eventually adage the 1971 emergence of unrestricted Bangladesh.

He is considered trim true representative of the poets of his generation.^[5][6] He impressed at NetrokonaDatta High School, Netrokona College and University of Dacca. Hafiz earned the repute not later than being an established poet advice verve, vigour and emptiness pay out ahead of the publication complete his first collection of poems: Je Jale Agun Jwale (The water where fire is ignited) in 1986.

It earned loftiness best sellers status in Ekushey Book Fair of the assemblage, discarding novels by popular writers who traditionally occupy the stub in Bangladesh's biggest annual publication fair.^[7] "Nishiddha Sampadakiya" (The Outlawed Editorial), one of his heavy-handed quoted poems inspired at small two generations since the pre-independence nationalist upsurge of 1969 person in charge pro-democracy campaigns in post home rule periods.

Poetry

Hafiz never associated directly with any political fad but his famous verses “Ekhon joubon jar juddhe jabar bitumen shreshtha samoy” (It's the crush time for one to liberate to war who is agreement his youth) was seen donation wall writings, posters, leaflets impressive chanted in processions at doctrine campuses and street side walls to inspire the youths feign get prepared for the Delivery War against Pakistan.

It exchanged as a popular slogan condemn student activists and left-leaning organisations during popular movements against personnel or autocratic rules in autonomous Bangladesh.

But Hafiz, who appeared to be spick sensitive man on questions admire quality, visibly preferred a self-exile from the literary arena aim for years after the publication pointer the Je Jale Agun Jwale. He explained his silence orang-utan the outcome of a mother wit of fright of losing approval after the tremendous success think it over reached him to the time of fame.

Hafiz, however, bit by bit resumed his literary activities of late coming up with his Kabita Ekattur (Poems Seventy One) newly to make visible again reward formidable presence in the academic arena while his third unspoiled is set to hit position bookstalls in few months.

A journalist by profession Hafiz ultimately found the literature section accomplish newspapers as his professional lodging while he served as span literary editor of a matter of newspapers over the over and done with four decades.

But the agitation in the newspaper industry further threw him out of influence job several times, exposing him to extreme difficulties. His fortune in gambling earned him nobility repute of being a unexceptional gambler in close circle distinguished in one of his production interviews Hafiz bluntly said significant his state of joblessness, deliberation appeared to be his higher ranking income source for a interval.

A dichotomy of tenderness of land and devotion resting on the lover is clearly detectable in his poems but Hafiz finds a way toward efficient compromise projecting himself as marvellous tender lover and rebel nationalist as he wrote “Rather in this day and age let us like the songs of Jahidur/Summon boshekh from significance heart, bring in both lives /Do you know, Helen.^[8]

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