Moniruzzaman (known by his pen-name Hayat Mamud;[1] born 2 July 1939) is a Bangladeshi essayist-poet.

[2] Mamud was born on 2 July 1939 to a Bengali Muslim family in the village of Maura in the Hooghly district of the Bengal Province.

He migrated with his parents, Muhammad Shamsher Ali and Aminah Khatun, to Dacca in East Bengal as a result of the 1950 anti-Muslim riots in West Bengal.

[citation needed] Mamud completed his bachelor's and master's degree in Bengali literature from University of Dhaka.

[citation needed] Mamud served as a faculty member of Jahangirnagar University.