Akhteruzzaman Elias (12 February 1943 – 4 January 1997) was a Bangladeshi novelist and short story writer.[1] Despite writing only two novels, critics place Elias “in the pantheon of great Bengali novelists”. Elias “emerged as a powerful short-story writer” in 1960s, and published his first novel, Chile Kotar Sepai in 1987 and his second and last Khowabnama in 1996 shortly before his death on 4 January 1997.