Mainus Sultan is a
Bangladeshi author and academic. He was born in 1956 in Fulbari,
Sylhet. He completed a bachelor's degree from the University of Dhaka.
He married Hollyn Green.
Their daughter, Kajori Sultan, was born in 1994. He and Green worked in Laos from 1995 through 1999 with Quaker Service Laos, a branch of the
American Friends Service Committee. Sultan's research there became the basis for his doctoral thesis, entitled "The process of collaborative capacity building: The journey towards achieving self-management for local INGO staff in the Lao PDR". He submitted it to the University of Massachusetts in May 2003 and received the degree of Doctor of Education.
Sultan was a visiting professor at
University of Massachusetts Amherst
The University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst, UMass) is a public research university in Amherst, Massachusetts and the sole public land-grant university in Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Founded in 1863 as an agricultural college, ...
. In 2014, he and his wife moved to Sierra Leone,
where she became the head of public affairs for the US embassy in Freetown. Sultan received a
Bangla Academy Award
The Bangla Academy Literary Award ( bn, বাংলা একাডেমি সাহিত্য পুরস্কার; ''Bangla Academy Shahitya Puroshkar''), is given by the Bangla Academy of Bangladesh in recognition of creative genius i ...
, the highest literary award of Bangladesh, in 2015 for his travel writing.
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Living people
1956 births
Bangladeshi male writers
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