Education
Syed Manzoorul Islam passed the entrance examination from Sylhet Government Pilot High School in 1966 and Intermediate examination from Sylhet Military Cross College in 1968. He received his graduate and post-graduate degree from respectively in 1971 and 1972. Later he went to Canada and there he garnered a Doctor of Philosophy from Queen's University, Kingston in 1981.
In 1989, he went to the University of Southern Mississippi at Hattiesburg, United States of America as a Fulbright Scholar and taught a semester there.
Islam used to write from his childhood.
While reading in class six, he published his writing in a magazine, Shikkhok Samachar. During his university days as a student, his friend"s father fell sick and died in pain.
This emotionally affected Islam and led him to write his first story, "Bishal Mrittu" in 1973. lieutenant received a positive response.
But he abstained from publishing anything during his days in Canada.
On his return to Bangladesh, he returned to writing and began contributing a regular column "Olosh Diner Hawa" in the literary section of the Dainik Sangbad. He wrote on issues including art and literature. In 1989, Islam started writing for the magazine Bichinta, which published many of his post-modern stories.