Mohammad Nurul Huda

In 2007, after 34 years of service Huda retired as Director of Bangla Academy, Dhaka. Till date he works as the executive editor of the Bangla Academy Journal. At Bangla Academy, he worked as the Project Director at Young Writers' Project. He also served as the Executive Director of the Nazrul Institute, Dhaka. He was a Consultant of WIPO, Geneva. He is the Departmental Head of English Department in European University of Bangladesh, Dhaka. Also, he contributes a regular column entitled Sadakotha (tr. Plain Tales) on social, political and cultural aspects of contemporary Bangladesh. He is the President of the Bangladesh Writers' Club. The Government of Bangladesh appointed him as the Director General of Bangla Academy on 12th July 2021.

More than 100 titles in total to his credit as of February 2007. Some English titles are -

He has published as many as fifty poetry books to his credit till February 2007 as listed below:

Huda has been working on matters relating to intellectual property since last few years. On 12 December 2007 he presented a seminal work at the Top Level Forum on Intellectual Property organised by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO/OMPI), held in Geneva, Switzerland. The main focus of his paper was Traditional Knowledge (TK) and Traditional Cultural Expressions (TCE). He presented an estimation of the value of yearly transaction TCE in Bangladesh.

Huda has translated the poems of the Turkish poet Yunus Emre's poems, in collaboration with Arshaduzzaman, and also translated Nazrul's famous poems entitled 'Kemal Pasha' and 'Wardrum' into English. He was decorated with state honour as an outstanding personality contributing to the promotion of Turkish-Bangladesh relations by Süleyman Demirel, the President of Turkey, during his Bangladesh visit marking the silver jubilee celebration of independence of Bangladesh on 25 March 1997.

After high school, he studied English Literature at the University of Dhaka and obtained his B. A. with Honors in 1970 and M. A. in 1972. He participated in training courses at the East West Centre, Hawaii. After graduation he taught English in a colleges for about five years and then at the Dhaka University for a brief period. His literary career commenced early and he emerged in the 1960s as a modern poet.

Mohammad Nurul Huda (born 30 September 1949) is a Bangladeshi poet and novelist. Currently Huda is serving as the Director General of Bangla Academy from 12th July 2021.He has written more than fifty poetry books. He was awarded the Ekushey Padak in 2015. Huda was born to Mohammad Sekander and Anjuman Ara Begum in Poak Khali of Cox's Bazar district, Bangladesh on 30 September 1949.