Qazi Anwar Hussain

He was diagnosed with prostate cancer on 31 October 2021. On 10 January 2022, he was placed on life support, before suffering a stroke and a heart attack. He died at BIRDEM in Dhaka, on 19 January 2022, at the age of 85.

Hussain would often lock himself in his room for hours at length when writing. He created the spy-thriller series Masud Rana, modeled after James Bond. As of 2008, there were more than 400 books in this series.

At first, Sheba meant Segun Bagicha, as well as service. Later, It meant only service. In 1971, the Pakistani militants burnt Sheba. The publishing house gave birth to many successful writers, including Sheikh Abdul Hakim, Rakib Hasan, Niaz Murshed, Asaduzzaman, Masud Mahmud, Khosru Chowdhury, Tipu Kibriya, and Anish Das Opu. Sheba's sister company is Projapoti, the hard bound publisher.

Rana, a spy, a former Major of the Bangladesh Army conducts missions all over the world. His boss is Major General Rahat Khan of Bangladesh Counter Intelligence. Rana works with Rana Agency.(1971). 321 stories in 468 books were published before the author's death. A few titles of this series are given below:

In the middle of 1960, he started a paperback publishing house called Sheba Prokashoni with "four writers", three of whom were his own pen-names. The publishing house is credited with producing works of world literature, as well as original work.

Qazi Anwar Hussain (19 July 1936 – 19 January 2022) was a Bangladeshi writer who mainly penned spy thriller, detective and adventure based novels, most of which are adaptations translated from or heavily influenced by foreign literature.

Hussain was born on 19 July 1936. His father was scientist and writer, Qazi Motahar Hossain. Hussain grew up in a literary environment. Some of the more famous members of his family included his late brother Qazi Mahbub Husain, sister Zobaida Mirza (professor and author), his older sister Sanjida Khatun (singer and author), his younger sister Fahmida Khatun (singer and author), and sister Mahmuda Khatun (singer). He received his master's in Bengali literature and language from the University of Dhaka. As a graduation gift, he requested a printing press of his father.