Eminent writer and researcher Professor Abul Quasem Fazlul Huq passed away on Sunday afternoon. He was 85.
He died at around 2:30pm at the National Heart Foundation in Mirpur after falling sick at a family progrmame, said Serajul Islam (Seraj Salekeen), chairman of the Department of Bangla of Dhaka University.
He received the Bangla Academy Literary Award in 1981.