In The Daily Star Rashid Askari writes about The genius of Humayun Ahmed, noting that:
Nothing of his is readily available in English (because, you know, he comes from a country of only some 150,000,000 people, and writes in a language with a long, impressive literary history that's only the sixth-most widely-spoken in the world ...).
Humayun Ahmed is, now, easily the most popular writer in Bangladesha superstar author with a prolific following of fans. Most of the younger generation are Humayun-mad. They are passionate devotees of his writing. Not only do they read him voraciously, they also get influenced by it. Perhaps no other writer in Bangladesh has exerted such a powerful influence on readers as Humayun has.But:
If popularity is the yardstick of a writer's quality, Humayun Ahmed could be the greatest writer in Bangladesh, and one of the greatest writers of Bengali literature. But connoisseurs of literature won't surely agree. They are used to taking popularity mostly in negative connotations.(He's also had some recent legal-political troubles with his latest book.)
Nothing of his is readily available in English (because, you know, he comes from a country of only some 150,000,000 people, and writes in a language with a long, impressive literary history that's only the sixth-most widely-spoken in the world ...).