11 selected for Bangla Academy Sahitya Purashkar
A total of eleven personalities on Thursday selected for Bangla Academy Sahitya Purashkar-2016.
Director General of Bangla Academy Shamsuzzaman Khan unveiled the names at a press briefing at the academy’s auditorium.
The recipients are: Altaf Hossain (poetry), Shaheen Akhtar (fiction), Abdul Momen and Dr Atiur Rahman (jointly for essay), Moniruzzaman (research), Abdus Selim (translation), Tajul Mohammad (literature on Liberation War), Faruk Chowdhury (biography and travelogue), Masum Reza (drama), Sharif Khan (science, technology and environment) and Sujan Barua (juvenile literature).
