Syed Waliullah

Bio: Syed Waliullah was a Bangladeshi novelist, short-story writer and playwright. He is most well known in Bengali literature for his first novel, Lalsalu. He is a cousin of physicist and mathematician Jamal Nazrul Islam.

Born: August 15, 1922 in Chittagong, Bangladesh

Died: October 10, 1971 in Paris, France