Saymon Zakaria is a Bangladeshi folk researcher and assistant director of the folklore department in the Bangla Academy. He was awarded Bangla Academy Literary Award in 2020 for his contribution in Bangladeshi folklore.Zakaria was born on 3 December 1972 at the Jungli village under Kumarkhali Upazila of Kushtia District in Bangladesh.He received a Master of Philosophy on “The Characters of Rama and Sita in the Popular Versions of the Ramayana in Bangladesh” from the Jahangirnagar University and obtained Doctor of Philosophy on the “Traditional Theater in Bangladesh: Content and Mode of Language” from the University of Dhaka.
