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Biography
Ahmedur Rashid Chowdhury (also Tutul) is a Bangladeshi publisher and writer. He won 2016 Pinter International Writer of Courage Award, selected by writer Margaret Atwood. His writings were published in newspapers, magazine, and blogs.
Career
In 1990, Chowdhury founded Shuddhashar magazine. He established a publishing house, under the same name, in Dhaka in 2004. Shuddhashar won Shahid Munir Chowdhury Award by the Bangla Academy in 2013. In February 2015, he received a death threat, for publishing materials of atheist writers.
On October 31, 2015, he, along with Ranadipam Basu and Tareque Rahim, was attacked by assailants with machetes. He was hospitalized in a critical condition. Ansar Al Islam (AQIS Bangladesh) claimed the responsibility. He went into exile and settled in Norway in February 2016.
Chowdhury was the finalist of 2016 IPA Freedom to Publish Prize.
Works
- Editor Shuddhashar
- Nil Bishe Sish Kate Thot (Whistling through Blue Poison) (1995)