Mozid Mahmud (; born 16 April 1966) is a Bangladeshi poet and essayist. He is recognized as a major poet of the 1980s, with more than thirty books to his credit.
Biography
Mozid Mahmud is the pen name of Mohammad Abdul Mozid. He was born in 1966 at Chargorgori, a village thirteen km west of Pabna in East Pakistan, to the family of Mohammad Keramat Ali Biswas and Sanowara Begum.
Education
He completed his early education in the local school and college. In 1986, he crossed the Jamuna and went to capital Dhaka, where he attended the University of Dhaka to receive an MA degree in Bengali literature and language in 1989 with a First Class. He was awarded a research grant by the Nazrul Institute in 1996, the result of which was Nazrul: Spokesman of the Third World (Nazrul: Tritiya Bishwer Mukhopatro; 1997) published from the same institute. He also awarded a research fellow by the University Grand commission, the result of which was Travelodge of Tagore (Rabindranather Vraman Sahitya 2010).
Career
A journalist by profession, he carefully escapes the arena of popular and prosaic day-to-day information that the job deserves, and dives into the invincible deep of poetic inspiration from where he collects pebbles of pictures, aroma of feelings and intense fabric of thought, after which an automatic mental process of jeopardizing them continues in its own accord. He taught Bengali literature at some colleges and universities for almost five years.
Activism
Mozid Mahmud has been working with poor and vulnerable people in Bangladesh, especially destitute northern part of the country from two decades. He established Organization for Social Advancement & Cultural Activities (OSACA) a non-government organisation which is fighting for hunger and legal rights.
Publications
Poetry
Boutubani Fuler Deshe (In the World of the Boutubanis) 1985
Mahfuja Mongol, 1989
Goshther Dikey (Towards the Pasture), 1996
Ball Upakhyan (Odyssey of a Ball), 2001
Apple Kahinee (Story of an Apple), 2002
Dhatri clinicer Janma (The birth of maternity Clinic), 2007
Singha o Gardobher Kabita (Poems of Lion and Dunky), 2012
Mahfuza Mangal
Majid Mahmud's book of poetry is a dedication to 'Mahfuza', following the trend of poetry and songs dedicated to gods and goddesses of religions and sects of the subcontinent. The poetry dedicated to gods and goddesses was for relief from the vagaries of nature. Majid Mahmud's poetry is passionate as images continue in their contortions. The space between man and gods and goddess resonates with the enormity of infinity and eternity. This collection is the edition published on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the first publication of the book in February 1989. After that there have been three more editions.
Novel
Poet and essayist Mozid Mahmud’s novel titled Memorial Club is scheduled to hit Amar Ekushey Book Fair 2021. It is the first novel of Mozid, who has received huge response penning the collection of poems titled Mahfujamangal.
Essays, researches and narrative prose
Nazrul: Tritiya Bishwer Mukhopatro (Nazrul: Spokesman of the Third World), 1997
Rabindranather Vraman Sahitya (Travelodge of Tagore), 2010
Keno Kabi Keno Kabi Nay (Why Poet or Not), 2002
Uttar Uponibesh Sahitya O Onyano (Post-Colonial Literature and Others), 2006
Bhasar Adhipatya (Dominations of Language), 2005
Rabindranath and Bharat Barso, 2011.
Short stories and fiction
Makarsha o Rajanigandha (Spider and Tube-rose), 1986
Memorial Club, 2010
Edited books
Brikha Bhalobaser Kabita ( The Anthology of Affection to Three), 2000
Jamrul Hasan Beg Smarak Grontha (A book on Jamrul Hasan Beg), 2003
Rabindranather Bhroman Sahitya (Travelogues of Tagore) 2010
Ashir dashoker Kabi o Kabita (Poems of Eighties), 1990
Journals and magazines
Bangla Literature (1997), editor, a poetry journal
Parbo, editor, a literary periodical journal (publishing 2005 to till)