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Bangla Academy declares revised list of its literary award recipients

Bangla Academy declares revised list of its literary award recipients

Shawdesh Desk:

Bangla Academy on Wednesday night declared the revised list of its literary award recipients after a review meeting of the executive council.

Bangla Academy director general Mohammad Azam declared the list at the academy’s official facebook page.

 

According to the facebook post, the academy eliminated three names from the previous award list namely Selim Morshed in fiction, Faruk Nawaz in children’s literature and Muhammad Hannan in the War of Independence but not including any other instead of them due to the academy policy.

According to the fourth chapter, ninth section of the ‘Bangla Academy Literary Award Policy’, the Executive Council cannot consider anyone new for the award and the council also reserves the right not to consider any recommendation according to the tenth section.

At the revised list, seven litterateurs named as the winners of the prestigious award included Masud Khan in the poetry category, Shuvashis Sinha in drama and dramatic literature, Salimullah Khan in essay/prose, GH Habib in translation, Muhammad Shahjahan Mian in research, Rezaur Rahman in science and Syed Jamil Ahmed in folklore.

Earlier, the academy suspended the list of winners of the Bangla Academy Literary Award 2024 amid controversies on Saturday.

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