Syed Waliullah

Syed Waliullah (সৈয়দ ওয়ালিউল্লাহ) (1922–1971) was a Bangladeshi novelist, short-story writer and playwright. He is most well known in Bengali literature for his first novel, Lalsalu (translated as "Tree Without Roots", though it literally means "Red cloth"). He is a cousin of physicist and mathematician Jamal Nazrul Islam