Literature

Two-day prize distribution ceremony of Bishwa Sahitya Kendra’s book reading programme ‘Utkarsha’ commenced at Shikha Chirantan, Suhrawardy Udyan in the capital. As part of the programme, over 6,000 student of 2017 session from different students of Dhaka city will receive prizes. The inauguration ceremony was held this morning underneath Shikha Chirantan, Suhrawardy...

Crime novelist Sue Grafton, whose Kinsey Millhone Alphabet series became world-wide best sellers, has died after a two-year battle with cancer, her daughter said on Friday. Grafton, 77, died in Santa Barbara, California, on Thursday surrounded...

Affairs Minister of Bangladesh Mr. Asaduzzaman Noor today said toeing the line of modern world libraries of the country would be turned into one stop centers with all necessary facilities to attract readers. He said efforts...

The 7th Dhaka Literary Festival (DLF) will begin on the premises of Bangla Academy today (November 16, 2017). Jatrik Production Limited (JPL), The Cultural Affairs Ministry and Bangla Academy are jointly organizing the three-day literary event...

Jyoti Prakash Dutta and Mozaffar Hossain will receive Exim Bank-Anyadin Humayun Ahmed Literary Award this year. The award will be presented at an award giving ceremony on Sunday at the Abdul Karim Sahitya Bisharad Auditorium of...

Humayun Ahmed would have turned 69 today. The world’s most-used web search engine Google has created a doodle marking the birthday of Bangladeshi writer Humayun Ahmed. The Doodle imagines Humayun Ahmed at his estate, meeting with...

Kazuo Ishiguro, author of The Remains of the Day, Never Let Me Go, and most recently The Buried Giant, and oh, also our newest Nobel Laureate in Literature, turns 63. He has the distinction of being among the small class of...

News Hour The 7th Dhaka Literary Festival (DLF) will begin on the premises of Bangla Academy in the capital on November 16. The Cultural Affairs Ministry, Bangla Academy and Jatrik Production Limited (JPL) are organizing the...

News Hour To celebrate the 20th anniversary of Bloomsbury publishing Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone the British Council is hosting Harry Potter Festival from 15-28 October 2017 for the Harry Potter Fans across Bangladesh. Harry...

News Hour American author George Saunders has won the 2017 Man Booker Prize, a high-profile literary award, for his first novel, “Lincoln in the Bardo,” – a fictional account of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln burying his...