Saymon Zakaria is internationally recognized for his ethnographic field-surveys that relate to Intangible Cultural Heritage. Besides writing plays, poems and novels.
He has delivered academic lectures on language, literature, and culture to the University of Chicago, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of California (Santa Barbara), the University of Washington, the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, and the Sapientia-Hungarian University of Transylvania. Additionally, he has attended and conducted various workshops in France, Sri Lanka, Turkey, Kyrgyz Republic, Nepal, Philippines and different regions of India. He is currently Assistant Director of the Bangla Academy.
His books include "Pronomohi Bongomata: Indigenous Cultural Forms of Bangladesh". His co-edited publication, Carol Salomon’s City of Mirrors: Songs of Lālan Sāi (Oxford University Press, 2017). He received Bangla Academy Literary Award 2019. He established Bhabanagara Foundation.