Rashid Haider

Rashid Haider (15 July 1941 – 13 October 2020)[1] was a Bangladeshi author and novelist.

[1] Sheikh Faisal Abdur Rashid Muhammad Ziauddin Haider was born into an aristocratic Bengali Muslim zamindar family of Sheikhs on 15 July 1941 to Hakimuddin Sheikh and Rahima Khatun in Doharpara in Pabna Town of British India.

His father Hakimuddin Sheikh was a prominent zamindar in Pabna Town and would have received the title of Khan Bahadur from the ruling British Raj had the Partition of India been delayed a few years.

[1] He was a member of Nagorik Natya Sampradaya, founded by his brother Zia Haider.

Rashid wrote Toilo Shonkot, and acted in Baki Itihash, the first play by Nagorik.