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Dr. Rezaur Rahman (born 23 January 1944) is a Bangladeshi writer and zoologist. His literary and scientific work has been published in various Bengali journals, newspapers, and books since 1962. He is the author of seven text books, ten popular science books, over a hundred and fifty short stories, seventeen short story anthologies, and twelve novels.

Early life Rahman was born in Dhaka in 1944, the second son of (late) Mohammad Fazlur Rahman, who was a lawyer in Dhaka, and (late) Lutfunnesa Begum. His maternal grandfather was Maulana Abdus Shahid, who was a member of the Bengal Legislative Assembly of undivided Bengal. Rahman attended Nawabpur Government High School in Dhaka. He completed his masters in Entomology from University of Dhaka in 1965, and received his doctorate in Zoology in 1979 from the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences and Charles University in Prague in former Czechoslovakia.

Career Rahman served in various research and senior administrative roles at the Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission in Savar and Dhaka from 1966 to 2002, retiring as director of Biological Sciences. In 1987 he completed a postdoctoral fellowship on fruit fly control at the Siebersdorf Lab of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna, Austria. He taught advanced biology courses at Jahangirnagar University from 1991 to 2005, and served in doctoral committees at University of Dhaka, University of Rajshahi, and Jahangirnagar University throughout his career. He is involved with various science education organizations in Bangladesh such as the Bangladesh Mathematics and Science Olympiad (associate member of the organizing committee), Bangladesh Freedom Foundation (former treasurer and emeritus trustee), and Bangladesh Astronomical Society (current president). He is also a senior member of the advisory committee of Biggan Chinta, a popular science magazine published by Prothom Alo, the largest circulating newspaper in Bangladesh.

Publications Rahman has written seven textbooks in Bengali for graduate studies in Entomology, among them the first Bengali entomology textbooks titled উচ্চতর কীটতত্ত্ব (Advanced Entomology) and অর্থনৈতিক কীটতত্ত্ব (Economic Entomology), which he co-authored with Dr. Mosharraf Hossain. The first edition of this book was published by Bangla Academy in 1984 and the second edition was published by Adorn Publication in 2016. Rahman’s original research on fruit fly control is documented in the academic article titled “Irradiation as a Quarantine Treatment Against Ceratatis capitata (Diptera: Tephritidae)” in the Journal of Economic Entomology.

Rahman has been writing fiction in Bengali for almost six decades. His literary style is influenced by the work of Rabindranath Tagore, Premendo Mitro, Romapodo Chowdhury, Albert Camus, Franz Kafka, and Somerset Maugham. Some of his novels include Himel Hawa (2017), Shada Borof Kalo Brikkho (2013), Ondhokare Noy Mash (2010), Omoleen Kuwasha (1999), and Bok Hottar Bichar Chai (1989). Among his many short story anthologies are Golpo Ponchash (2020), Jatrar Shesh Shimana (2015), Majhrater Ishtishon (2009), Shobuj Boner Shobuj Tiye (2006), Ora Kothay Je Jai ((1989), and Obhoironno Khuji (1986).