Popular writer Qazi Anwar Hussain died at BIRDEM General Hospital in Bangladesh capital Dhaka on Wednesday afternoon, family confirmed.
He was diagnosed with prostate cancer on October 31, 2021, and has been hospitalised 5 times since then.
He later suffered a brain stroke and a heart attack and was put on life support on January 10, 2022, at a private hospital.
"He had been on life support at BIRDEM Hospital and was shifted to the ICU yesterday. He breathed his last there at 4:40 this afternoon," said his sister, popular cultural personality Sanjida Khatun.
He was born in 1936 and wrote a huge number of spy-thriller, detective and adventure novels that were influenced by foreign literature.
Hussain’s father, Qazi Motahar Hossain, was a scientist, writer and national professor.
He got his post-graduation in Bengali literature and language from the University of Dhaka.
He established Sheba Prokashoni alone in 1960 and became a prominent publishing figure in Bangla literature.
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