{{Short description|Bangladeshi writer, poet and educationist}} {{for|the Botswana banker and economist|Razia Khan (economist)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2024}} {{infobox person | name = Razia Khan | native_name = রাজিয়া খান | native_name_lang = bn | birth_date = {{circa|1936}} | death_date = {{death date and age|2011|12|28|1936|df=y}} | death_place = Dhaka, Bangladesh | awards = full list | father = Maulvi Tamizuddin Khan | relatives = Nurul Amin (father-in-law) | spouse = Anwarul Amin Makhon | children = Aasha Mehreen Amin (daughter) }}
'''Razia Khan Amin''' (1936 – 28 December 2011) was a Bangladeshi writer, poet and educationist.<ref name=anniv>{{cite news |date=28 December 2013 |title=Razia Khan Amin's 2nd anniversary of death today |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/razia-khan-amins-2nd-anniversary-of-death-today-4332 |newspaper=The Daily Star |access-date=18 March 2015 |archive-date=2 April 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402134813/http://www.thedailystar.net/razia-khan-amins-2nd-anniversary-of-death-today-4332 |url-status=live }}</ref> She was also a journalist, theatre actor and columnist for newspapers.<ref name=anniv/> She was awarded Ekushey Padak in 1997 for her contribution to education by the Government of Bangladesh.<ref name=ekushey>{{cite news|url=http://www.moca.gov.bd/site/page/c706da0c-29ee-4f0f-95d9-fa6705e19001/|script-title=bn:একুশে পদকপ্রাপ্ত সুধীবৃন্দ|trans-title=Ekushey Padak winners list|publisher=Government of Bangladesh|language=bn|access-date=22 July 2017|archive-date=17 June 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180617174919/http://www.moca.gov.bd/site/page/c706da0c-29ee-4f0f-95d9-fa6705e19001|url-status=live}}</ref>
==Education and career== Khan's father Maulvi Tamizuddin Khan was a politician and a social activist.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-216442|title=Those who passed on…|date=2012-01-01|work=The Daily Star|access-date=2017-11-23|language=en|archive-date=2024-06-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240602131221/https://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-216442|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://bangladeshonrecord.com/maulvi-tamizuddin-khan-a-celebration-of-courage/#.Y2xqHnZBy1s|title=Maulvi Tamizuddin Khan: A Celebration Of Courage|date=2022-02-08|work=Bangladesh on Record|access-date=2022-11-10|language=en|archive-date=2022-11-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221110031413/https://bangladeshonrecord.com/maulvi-tamizuddin-khan-a-celebration-of-courage/#.Y2xqHnZBy1s|url-status=dead}}</ref>
Khan completed her bachelor's degree and masters in English from the University of Dhaka.<ref name=writer/> She went to University of Birmingham on a scholarship from the British Council for higher studies.<ref name=writer/>
Khan joined the editorial board of the then Pakistan Observer (later renamed The Bangladesh Observer). She then joined as a faculty member of the Department of English of the University of Dhaka.<ref name=anniv/>
At the age of 18, Khan wrote her first novel ''Bot tolar Upannayash'' in 1958.<ref name=writer/>
==Personal life== Khan was married to Anwarul Amin Makhon, the second-eldest son of former Prime Minister of Pakistan Nurul Amin. Anwarul Amin Makhon was the former general manager of BCCI Bangladesh and opened Bangladesh Bank's first branch abroad (in London).<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.thedailystar.net/daily-star-books/news/anwarul-amins-memoir-revisits-the-first-bangladeshi-bank-established-abroad-2920311|title=Anwarul Amin's memoir revisits the first Bangladeshi bank established abroad|date=18 December 2021|author=Syeda, Maisha|work=The Daily Star (Bangladesh)|access-date=2 June 2024|archive-date=20 September 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220920172628/https://www.thedailystar.net/daily-star-books/news/anwarul-amins-memoir-revisits-the-first-bangladeshi-bank-established-abroad-2920311|url-status=live}}</ref> The couple had two children: banker Kaiser Tamiz Amin and journalist Aasha Mehreen Amin.<ref>{{citation|script-title=bn:ব্যাঙ্কারদের সামাজিক দায়বদ্ধতা ও মানবিকতা|work=রাস্তা থেকে বলছি|year=2011|author=Mazumder, Ershad|language=bn}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newsg24.com/feature-news/8078/|script-title=bn:সাহিত্যিক রাজিয়া খানের জন্মদিন আজ|language=bn|work=NewsG24|date=16 February 2022|access-date=2 June 2024|archive-date=21 September 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220921232809/https://www.newsg24.com/feature-news/8078/|url-status=live}}</ref>
==Works==
===Novels=== * Bot tolar Upannayash (Novel of the Wayside, 1959) * Anukalpa (The Alrternative, 1959) * Proticitra (The Blue-Print, 1975) * Citra-kabya (Picturesque Verses, 1980) * He Mohajibon (O! Eternal Life, 1983) * Draupadi (1992)<ref name=writer/> * Padatik (The Pedestrian, 1996) * Brhastonir * Shikhor Himaddrir * Bandi Bihongo<ref name=writer/>
==Awards== * PEN Lay Writing Award (1956){{citation needed|date=July 2024}} * Pope Gold Medal (1957){{citation needed|date=July 2024}} * Bangla Academy Literary Award (1975){{citation needed|date=July 2024}} * Qamar Mushtari Gold Medal (1985){{citation needed|date=July 2024}} * Ekushey Padak (1997){{citation needed|date=July 2024}} * Lekhika Sangha Gold Medal (1998)<ref name=writer/> * Druhee Katha-Shahityak Abdur Rouf Choudhury Memorial Award (1999){{citation needed|date=July 2024}} * Anannya Literature Award (2003)<ref name=writer>{{cite news|url=http://archive.thedailystar.net/magazine/2003/10/05/literature.htm|title=An Unpretentious Writer|newspaper=The Daily Star|author=Shamim Ahsan|date=31 October 2003|access-date=22 July 2017|archive-date=18 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170818174615/http://archive.thedailystar.net/magazine/2003/10/05/literature.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref>
== References == {{reflist}}
==Further reading== * {{cite book |last=Hashmi |first=Alamgir |date=2005 |chapter=Khan, Razia (1935-) |editor-last1=Benson |editor-first1=Eugene |editor-last2=Conolly |editor-first2=L. W. |title=Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Literatures in English |location=London |publisher=Routledge |via=Credo Reference}}
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