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Bangladesh's village theatre movement. He took the monumental task of creating the only dictionary on dramatics available in Bengali. Having been awarded almost all national recognitions possible in the field of theatre, Deen's work is studied at many universities across the world. Several of his plays have been translated into other languages. They have been staged outside Bangladesh too. In fact, he is one of few Bangladeshi writers to have his plays staged by West Bengal troupes. He helped to build the Dramatics department of
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Barnard's Minor Latham Playhouse, in New York City on 13, 14 and 15 November 2003. The cast featured Ian Anthony, Ann Cheung, Samantha Debicki, Ariana Getz, Oscar Olivo, Lindsay Strachan, Chloe Waters-Wallace, Matt Wilstein and Jessica Valadez. In 2006, Syed Jamil Ahmed directed the play in
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Since the 1980s, Deen has played a pivotal role in the theatre movement of
Bangladesh. Apart from his active involvement with Dhaka Theatre, his fundamental contribution was introduction of a novel sense of direction to modern Bengali Drama, based on tradition. Al-Deen has also been one of the key
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Deen was attracted to reading literary works at a very young age. As he turned on to admit into Dhaka
University in 1966, he decided to become a career writer. In the early years, Deen wanted to be a poet and published some of poems he composed. But soon he realised that poetry was not his cup of
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on 18 August 1949. He was the third of their seven siblings. He assumed this pen name later. His school life started in 1954. He travelled with his father to different parts of the country and received education in many institutions as his father was doing a transferable government job in the
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Deen carried out extensive research for his doctoral dissertation in which he proved that the history of
Bengali drama is older than that of European drama. He moved earth and heaven to collect data in support of his thesis. During 1977 to 1979, Selim Al-Deen studied Bengali
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who encouraged him to focus attention on drama. First he started reading plays and study the life of playwrights. Then he started to write plays himself. He wrote his first drama in 1968 while still a university-student. His first radio play was
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and adapted by Steve
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562:(2004). He published two poetry collections,
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966:"Recalling Selim Al Deen by Nirmalendu Goon"
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859:[Epic departure of Selim Al-Deen].
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1036:Mazumder, Tanmoy (5 August 2023).
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574:(2007). His only novel is titled
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351:Deen's subsequent works, namely
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3210:Jahangirnagar University alumni
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819:Kamol, Ersahad (11 June 2004).
707:Kathak Sahitya Puroshkar (2002)
114:Jahangirnagar University campus
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176:Bangla Academy Literary Award
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1007:"Telling our tales, our way"
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280:Deen's close study of
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763:During the height of
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85:Dominion of Pakistan
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682:Unfinished projects
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970:Daily Naya Diganta
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753:Selim Al Deen Road
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188:Independence Award
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