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  Literary arena mourns death of Makbula Manzoor

  Cultural Correspondent | Updated at 11:06pm on July 04, 2020

  Bangla Academy award winning writer Makbula Manzoor passed away on Friday at her younger sister’s residence in the capital’s Uttara. She was 82. She is...

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  Multifaceted litterateur Alauddin Al Azad

  Dhrubo Sadiq | Updated at 08:15pm on July 03, 2020

  He was a versatile author whose dedication to writing made him explore myriad forms of creativity, including novel, poetry, essay and film script. He was...

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  Remembering Alauddin Al Azad

  Dhrubo Sadiq | Updated at 12:00am on July 03, 2020

  Novelist, poet, freedom fighter, and academic, he can be described in many ways. Through his mediation, once the masses was introduced to rural and world...

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  Queenie author Candice Carty Williams wins British Book Award

  Culture Desk | Updated at 10:58pm on June 30, 2020

  Candice Carty-Williams has said she feels ‘proud’ but ‘sad’ to become the first black author to win book of the year at the British Book...

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  Poet Dawood Al-Hafiz dies

  Cultural Correspondent | Updated at 01:20am on June 30, 2020

  Poet Dawood Al-Hafiz died at Kusthia General Hospital on Monday after suffering a cardiac arrest. He was 55. ‘He felt sick at his house at...

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  Author Michael Rosen told he ‘might not wake up’

  Culture Desk | Updated at 11:07pm on June 29, 2020

  Author Michael Rosen has said doctors warned him he ‘might not wake up’ shortly before putting him into an induced coma during Covid-19 treatment, reports...

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  Shamsuzzaman Khan becomes Bangla Academy president

  Cultural Correspondent | Updated at 11:07pm on June 29, 2020

  Renowned folklorist Shamsuzzaman Khan has been named the new Bangla Academy president for the next three years. He assumed office through a programme on Monday,...

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  Ahmed Sofa: A unique craftsman of perception

  Dhrubo Sadiq | Updated at 12:00am on June 30, 2020

  An influential thinker of his time, Ahmed Sofa has always been in dialogue with his contemporaries, besides the retinue of emerging writers who surrounded him,...

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  Remembering Michael Madhusudan Dutt

  Dhrubo Sadiq | Updated at 12:00am on June 29, 2020

  As a result of introduction of English education in the Indian subcontinent in the nineteenth century, Bengalis became acquainted with European civilisation and culture. This...

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  Michael: the immortal aspirant

  Dhrubo Sadiq | Updated at 10:39pm on June 28, 2020

  As a result of introduction of English education in the Indian subcontinent in the nineteenth century, Bengalis became acquainted with European civilisation and culture. This...