Eminent writer Syed Shamsul Haq was taken to London on Friday for the treatment of his lung disease.
President of Jatiya Kabita  Parishad Dr.Muhammad Samad told UNB yesterday that the prolific writer and poet was admitted to Royal Marsden Hospital in London as he has been suffering from critical lungs disease.
Syed Shamsul Haq has been acclaimed as on of the very few ambidextrous writers of contemporary time, expressing his genius through poems, short stories, novels, plays, adaptation of plays, and cinema scripts. He had already been honoured with the Bangla Academy Award  and Ekushey Padak.