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{{infobox person
| name = Serajul Islam Choudhury
| native_name = সিরাজুল ইসলাম চৌধুরী
| native_name_lang = bn
| image = Serajul Islam Choudhury.jpg
| caption = Choudhury at the University of Dhaka (Feb 2015)
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1936|6|23|df=y}}
| birth_place = Baroikhali village, [[Sreenagar Upazila|Sreenagar]], [[Munshiganj District]], [[Bengal Presidency]], [[British India]]
| nationality = Bangladeshi
| education = Ph.D.
| father = Hafizuddin Chowdhury
| mother = Asia Khatun
| spouse = Nazma Jesmin Choudhury
| relatives = [[AKM Amanul Islam Chowdhury|Amanul Islam Chowdhury]] (brother)
| children = {{ubl|Rownak Ara Choudhury| Sharmin Choudhury}}
| alma_mater = {{ubl|[[Notre Dame College]]|[[University of Dhaka]]|[[The University of Leeds]]|[[Leicester University]]}}
}}
'''Serajul Islam Choudhury''' (born 23 June 1936) is a Bangladeshi literary critic, [[public intellectual]], social and political analyst, activist, historian, educationist, editor, translator, columnist, and professor emeritus at the [[University of Dhaka]]. He is the editor of ''Natun Diganta''. Considered one of the foremost oppositional intellectuals of Bangladesh, he authored nearly a hundred books and countless essays in Bangla and English.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Hussain|first1=Azfar|authorlink1=Azfar Hussain|title=Bangladesh's foremost oppositional intellectual|url=http://www.thedailystar.net/op-ed/bangladeshs-foremost-oppositional-intellectual-1244236|website=The Daily Star|publisher=The Daily Star|accessdate=21 July 2016|date=June 23, 2022}}</ref>

==Early life and education==
Choudhury was born in the village of Baroikhali under the [[Sreenagar Upazila|Sreenagar thana]] in the district of [[Munshigonj]].<ref name=mom>{{cite web|url=http://anannya.com.bd/fullnews.php?id=939|script-title=bn:আমার মা - সিরাজুল ইসলাম চৌধুরী|author=Hasan Hafiz|language=bn|date=January 26, 2017|accessdate=February 3, 2017|newspaper=Anannya Magazine}}</ref> He is the eldest of the nine brothers and four sisters to their parents Hafizuddin Chowdhury and Asia Khatun.<ref name=mom/> In his early life, he liked to build his career as a novelist, but his father wanted him to join the civil service after a degree in Economics. On a note of compromise, he enrolled with the English department at the [[University of Dhaka]] after an intermediate of arts degree, obtained in 1952 from [[Notre Dame College]], preceded by his matriculation from [[St. Gregory's High School]] in 1950. He received his MA degree in 1956 and taught briefly at Haraganga College in Munshiganj and Jagannath College in Dhaka. He completed his post-graduate diploma in English Studies at [[The University of Leeds]] , the UK and obtained his doctorate in English from [[Leicester University]], the UK.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://newagebd.net/237071/public-intellectual-turns-80/|title=A public intellectual turns 80|author=Kaiser Haq|author-link=Kaiser Haq|date=June 23, 2016|accessdate=February 3, 2017|publisher=New Age}}</ref>

==Career==
Choudhury joined as a lecturer the Department of English, Dhaka University, in 1957, planning also to be a writer. He decided not to become a bureaucrat which many around him were becoming then. He stated two reasons why he wanted to be a writer: first, his work at the university, which would ensure that he would not be transferred from place to place and which would allow him time to read and write a lot; and, second, his temperament. In more than four decades that followed, he taught students, wrote essays, headed the department, became Dean, spawned off several academic and research projects, initiated doctoral dissertation guidance at the department, started periodicals, founded study centers, and remained involved in university politics.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://newagebd.net/237064/serajul-islam-choudhury-leading-public-intellectual/|title=Serajul Islam Choudhury: Our leading public intellectual|date=June 23, 2016|accessdate=February 3, 2017|publisher=New Age}}</ref>
Choudhury first initiated to offer the Ph.D. degree in English at Dhaka University. He edited journals, the university journals of arts and letters, in Bangla and English — ''Dhaka Visvavidyalay Patrika'' for 15 years and ''Dhaka University Studies'' for nine years. He founded the ''Visvavidyalay Patrika''. Choudhury also founded a national views weekly called ''Somoy'' and co-edited it with [[Azfar Hussain]], Zaheda Ahmad ''et al'', from the early to the mid-1990s. He founded the University Book Centre in 1978 and the Centre for Advanced Research in Humanities in 1986. In keeping with the spirit, he now runs a centre called Samaj Rupantar Adhyayan Kendra (Centre for Social Transformation Studies), which works towards waking people up to a democracy which would mean ‘equality of rights and opportunities. Rights being equal would not mean anything unless the opportunities remain equal.’<ref>{{cite news|url=http://newagebd.net/237066/serajul-islam-choudhury-tribute/|title=Serajul Islam Choudhury: a tribute|author=Syed Manzoorul Islam|author-link=Syed Manzoorul Islam|date=June 23, 2016|accessdate=February 3, 2017|newspaper=New Age}}</ref>

==Personal life==
Choudhury was married to Nazma Jesmin Choudhury. She was a professor the University of Dhaka. Their children are Rownak Ara Choudhury and Sharmin Choudhury.<ref name=mom/>

==Awards==
* [[Ekushey Padak]]
* [[Bangla Academy Literary Award]]
* University of Dhaka Gold Medal in Research
* Kazi Mahbubullah Award
* Bangladesh Writers AWard
* Abdur Rahman Choudhury Award<ref name=mom/>

==Selected publications==
Choudhury's books in the Bengali language:
*''Anveshana ''
*''Nirbachita Prabandha'' (1999)
*''Rashtra o Samskrti'' (1993)
*''Nazrul Islam: Poet and More'' (1994) [Nazrul Institute]
*''Bangalir Jaya Parajaya'' (1994)
*''Apanajana'' (1992)

Choudhury's books in the English:
* {{cite book |last=Choudhury |first=Serajul Islam |author-mask=2 |year=1975 |title=The Moral Imagination of Joseph Conrad |publisher=University of Dhaka |oclc=2875762}}
* {{cite book |last=Choudhury |first=Serajul Islam |author-mask=2 |year=1981 |title=The Enemy Territory: A Study of Evil in D. H. Lawrence |publisher=University of Dhaka |oclc=988367614}}
* {{cite book |last=Choudhury |first=Serajul Islam |author-mask=2 |year=2002 |title=Middle Class and the Social Revolution in Bengal: An Incomplete Agenda |publisher=University Press |oclc=603857008}}

== References ==
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