Nurul Momen (25 November 1908 – 16 February 1990) was a Bangladeshi doyen playwright, Humourous Belle letterist, educator, director, broadcast personality, columnist, orator, academician, satirist, essayist, juvenile litterateur, translator and poet. He served as a faculty member in the capacities of professor and dean at the faculty of Law in the University of Dhaka. He also held the offices as the Proctor and Treasurer of the Dhaka University for a long time. He was such a luminary who was the teacher and mentor (Guru) of numerous other luminaries who later earned national and international fame like him. The most famous among them was Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. He also served as a lawyer. He is called "Father of Bangladeshi theatre" and "Natyaguru (or Natya Guru or Natto Guru) of Bangladesh" (The Grand Teacher of Drama and Theatre). He was awarded the Bangla Academy Award in 1961, merely a year after its inception. He was also honoured by the People's Republic of Bangladesh with the Ekushey Padak in 1978, only a couple of years after this State honor was introduced.
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25 November 1908 Alphadanga, Jessore, Bangladesh
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Died |
16 February 1990 (aged 81) Gulshan, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Zodiac | Sagittarius |
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