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Makid Haider

Bangladeshi poet and writer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ84845604
Source-derived summary

Makid Haider (28 September 1947 – 10 July 2024) was a Bangladeshi writer, poet and recipient of the Bangla Academy Literary Award.

Biography

Makid Haider was born on 28 September 1947 in the village of Doharpara in Pabna District in then East Bengal to Hakimuddin Sheikh and Rahima Khatun. His father Hakimuddin Sheikh was a prominent Zamindar in Pabna Town. Haider was one of seven sons and seven daughters, as well as the sixth amongst brothers, Rashid Haider, Zia Haider, Daud Haider, Zahid Haider, Abid Haider and Arif Haider had been involved in the literature and culture of the country.

Haider died in Dhaka on 10 July 2024, at the age of 76.

Awards

Haider was one of ten individuals to be awarded the Bangla Academy Literary Award in 2019 by the Government of Bangladesh .

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Makid Haider” as bangladeshi poet and writer. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1947, 2024, 2019—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1947-09-28. The account is most persuasive where Makid, Haider and Bangladeshi can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as bangladeshi poet and writer. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q84845604. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1947, 2024 and 2019.

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This entry incorporates text from Makid Haider” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.