Sikandar Abu Zafar | |
Birth Date: | 19 March 1918 |
Birth Place: | Satkhira District, Bengal, British India |
Awards: | full list |
Alma Mater: | Ripon College |
Sikandar Abu Zafar (19 March 1918 – 5 August 1975) was a Bangladeshi journalist and poet.[1]
Zafar passed the entrance examination in 1936 from Tala B Dey Institute in Satkhira. He received his IA degree from Ripon College, Calcutta (later renamed to Surendranath College).[1] [2]
He moved to Dhaka from Calcutta in 1950 and worked as a journalist for the dailies Nabajug, Ittefaq, Sangbad and Millat. He founded and edited a monthly magazine called Samakal during 1959–1970.[1]