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{{Infobox officeholder
|name = Syed Ali Ahsan
|native_name = সৈয়দ আলী আহসান
|office = [[Vice-Chancellor]] of [[Jahangirnagar University]]
|term_start = 1972
|term_end = 1975
|predecessor = [[Mafizuddin Ahmed]]
|successor = [[Enamul Haque (writer)|Muhammad Enamul Haq]]
|office1 = [[Vice-Chancellor]] of the [[University of Rajshahi]]
|term_start1 = 27 September 1975
|term_end1 = 26 June 1977
|predecessor1 = [[Mazharul Islam (poet)|Mazharul Islam]]
|successor1 = [[Muhammad Abdul Bari (academic)|Muhammad Abdul Bari]]
|office2 = [[Vice-Chancellor]] of [[Darul Ihsan University]]
|term_start2 = 1989
|term_end2 = 25 June 2002
|predecessor2 = [[Syed Ali Ashraf]]
|successor2 = [[Syed Anwar Hossain]]
|birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1922|03|26}}
|birth_place = [[Alokdia]], [[Magura District|Magura]], [[Bengal Presidency]], [[British India]]
|alma_mater = [[University of Dhaka]]
|death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|2002|06|25|1922|03|26}}
|death_place = [[Dhaka]], Bangladesh
|nationality = Bangladeshi
|relatives = [[Syed Ali Ashraf]] (brother)<br>[[Syed Sajjad Hussain]] (cousin)
}}
'''Syed Ali Ahsan''' ({{lang-bn|সৈয়দ আলী আহসান}}; 26 March 1922 – 25 June 2002) was a Bangladeshi poet, writer and university academic. He was awarded [[Ekushey Padak]] (1982) and [[Independence Day Award]] (1987) by the [[Government of Bangladesh]].<ref name=ekushey>{{cite news|url= http://www.moca.gov.bd/site/page/c706da0c-29ee-4f0f-95d9-fa6705e19001/|script-title=bn:একুশে পদকপ্রাপ্ত সুধীবৃন্দ|access-date=23 August 2017|publisher=Government of Bangladesh|language=bn|trans-title=Ekushey Padak winners list}}</ref><ref name=indepen>{{cite web|url=http://brri.portal.gov.bd/sites/default/files/files/brri.portal.gov.bd/page/87944ec4_496e_415d_af37_27a10fb35625/Independence%20Day%20Award.pdf|title=Independence Day Award|access-date=23 September 2016|publisher=Government of Bangladesh}}</ref> In 1987, he was selected as the [[National Professor]] of Bangladesh. He was credited as the official English translator of the [[Amar Sonar Bangla|National Anthem of Bangladesh]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bangla2000.com/bangladesh/national_anthem.shtm|title=National Anthem of Bangladesh|publisher=bangla2000.com|access-date=9 September 2022}}</ref>

== Early life ==
Ahsan was born on 26 March 1922, to a [[Bengali Muslim]] family of [[Syeds]] in the village of [[Alokdia]] in [[Magura District|Magura]] (formerly under [[Jessore District]]), [[Bengal Presidency|Bengal Province]]. His father, Syed Ali Hamed, was a school inspector. His mother, Syeda Kamrunnegar Khatun, was the daughter of [[Syed Mukarram Ali]], the [[Zamindar]] and [[pir (Sufism)|Pir]] of Agla in [[Nawabganj Upazila, Dhaka|Nawabganj, Dhaka]]. His brothers were the Cambridge-educated Islamic philosopher and critic, Prof. [[Syed Ali Ashraf]], and Syed Ali Naqi, also a professor. He grew up in an atmosphere steeped in Sufi traditions inherited from both his paternal and maternal ancestors.<ref name=bpedia>{{cite Banglapedia|author=[[Sirajul Islam|Islam, Sirajul]]|article=Ahsan, Syed Ali}}</ref> While studying at the [[Armanitola Government High School]] in 1937, Ahsan published a poem called ''The Rose'' in his school magazine. Subsequently, stories, essays and poems written by him in Bengali were published in magazines such as Azad, Mohammadi and Saogat. When he was a student of the department of English in Dhaka University his essay titled 'Kavi Satyendranath Dutta' was published in the quarterly Parichay, a magazine edited by Sudhindranath Dutta.<ref name=bpedia/> As a student and later as a scholar, he was a key figure in the East Pakistan Literary Society, an influential movement for a more Islamically conscious Bengali literature; his brother Syed Ali Ashraf and his cousin [[Syed Sajjad Hussain]] were also involved. Unlike the latter two, Syed Ali Ahsan abandoned his erstwhile support of Pakistan, and became an advocate of Bangladeshi independence.

==Career==
Ahsan worked in [[All India Radio]]. He was a professor of department of [[Bengali language|Bengali]] in [[University of Dhaka]] and later, head of the department of Bengali of [[University of Karachi]]. In Karachi, he edited the [[Bengali Literary Review]], an English-language journal loosely concerned with Bengali Muslim literature and culture; it published many writers associated with the East Pakistan Literary Society.

He was a director of [[Bangla Academy]] and was the vice chancellor of [[Jahangirnagar University]], [[University of Rajshahi]]<ref name="RajshahiUniversityVC">{{cite web|url=http://www.ru.ac.bd/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=68&Itemid=337|title=VCs of Rajshahi University|access-date=30 July 2022}}</ref> and [[Darul Ihsan University]]. In addition, he was a National Professor (''Jatio Addhapok'') of Bangladesh. He was also an adviser of the Nobel prize committee for literature from 1976 to 1982.<ref>{{cite news |title=Beyond the literature |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/beyond-the-literature-18414 |work=The Daily Star |language=en |date=4 April 2022}}</ref>

He was an editor of the antique book "Bangladesh; a souvenir on the first anniversary of Victory Day, December 16, 1972.", as well.

Soon after the partition of India in 1947, Pakistan PEN was established in the year 1948. Ali Ahsan was its first secretary general while Muhammad Shahidullah was its president. When Bangladesh was born in 1971, PEN Bangladesh started its journey with Ali Ahsan as its president.

== Award ==
* [[Bangla Academy Literary Award]] (1967)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://banglaacademy.org.bd/?page_id=1315|script-title=bn:পুরস্কারপ্রাপ্তদের তালিকা|language=bn|trans-title=Winners list|access-date=23 August 2017|publisher=Bangla Academy}}</ref>
* [[Ekushey Padak]] (1982)
* [[Independence Day Award]] (1987)

== Death ==
Ahsan died on 25 July 2002. He was buried next to the Jahangirnagar University Mosque with national honour.<ref name=bpedia/>

==Works==

===Books===
* ''America Amar Kichu Kotha''
* ''Chorjageeti Proshongo''
* ''Kobita Shomogro''
* ''Kotha Bichitra: Bishyo Shahitto''

===Poetry===
* ''Onek Akas''
* ''Ekok Shandhay Bosonto''
* ''Sohosha Sochokit''
* ''Amar Protidiner Shobdo''
* ''Somudrei Jabo''

===Criticism===
* ''[[Kazi Nazrul Islam|Nazrul Islam]]''
* ''Kobitar Kotha''
* ''Iqbaler Kobita''
Rabindra kabeyr bhumika

===Translations===
* "[[Oedipus]]"
* "Whitemaner Kobita"

== References ==
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