Literature
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Asaduzzaman Noor for turning libraries into one-stop centres
Dec 31, 2017Affairs 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... -
Dhaka Lit Fest 2017 going to start today at Bangla Academy
Nov 16, 2017The 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... -
Humayun Ahmed Award 2017 winners announced
Nov 13, 2017Jyoti 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... -
Doodle imagines Humayun Ahmed at his estate, meeting with Himu
Nov 13, 2017Humayun 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 says, ‘write what you know’ is the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard
Nov 9, 2017Kazuo 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... -
Dhaka Lit Fest going to start Nov 16th
Nov 5, 2017News 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... -
British Council in Bangladesh celebrated Harry Potter Festival
Oct 21, 2017News 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... -
George Saunders’ ‘Lincoln in the Bardo’ wins 2017 Man Booker prize
Oct 18, 2017News 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... -
Leonard Cohen poems to be published in final book
Oct 8, 2017News Hour The final poems of Leonard Cohen, completed days before the legendary songwriter died, will be published in an anthology next year, his estate announced late Friday. Entitled “The Flame,” the volume will include Cohen’s... -
Kazuo Ishiguro wins the Nobel prize in literature 2017
Oct 5, 2017News Hour: The English author Kazuo Ishiguro has been named winner of the 2017 Nobel prize in literature, praised by the Swedish Academy for his “novels of great emotional force”, which it said had “uncovered the abyss...
