Selina Bahar Zaman | |
Birth Name: | Parveen Sultana Chaudhury |
Birth Date: | 15 February 1940 |
Birth Place: | Kolkata, Bengal Presidency, British India |
Nationality: | Bangladeshi |
Father: | Habibullah Bahar Chowdhury |
Mother: | Anwara Bahar Chowdhury |
Relatives: | Iqbal Bahar Chowdhury (brother) |
Alma Mater: | University of Dhaka |
Selina Bahar Zaman (; 15 February 1940 – 4 December 2004) was a Bangladeshi writer and academic.[1]
Zaman was born Parveen Sultana Chaudhury to Habibullah Bahar Chowdhury and Anwara Bahar Chowdhury. Habibullah was a politician and journalist and Anwara a social activist and writer.
Zaman started her school life at Kolkata. After her family's migration to Dhaka, she completed her matriculation examination from Qamrunnesa School in 1954. She then completed her bachelor's and master's in mathematics from the University of Dhaka in 1960. She started her career as a lecturer at the Eden Mohila College. She retired from the Jagannath University College in 1997 as the head of the department of mathematics.[1]