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Hasan Hafizur Rahman was a poet, journalist and critic. He was born on 14 July 1932 at his maternal uncle’s residence. His ancestral home was in the village of Kulkandi under Jamalpur district. The Detail >>
Manik Bandopadhyay was a Bengali novelist and is considered one of the leading lights of modern Bengali fiction. During a short lifespan of 48 years, plagued simultaneously by illness and financial Detail >>
Rabindranath Tagore was a Bengali poet, novelist and painter best known for being the first non-European to be awarded the Nobel Prize. He was the Bengali polymath who reshaped Bengali literature and Detail >>
British author Salman Rushdie’s first novel in seven years will be released in September, his publishers said today. The title, “Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights”, is a Detail >>
The 66th birthday of legendary Bangla fiction writer Humayun Ahmed is being celebrated on Wednesday. Marking his birthday, varios social organisations have chalked out various programmes. This Detail >>
The 37th death anniversary of National Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam was observed in the capital and elsewhere across the country with due solemnity on Tuesday. In Dhaka city, different socio-political and Detail >>
At long last the ultimate accolade in literature– the 10 million kronor award– the Nobel Prize (2011) was awarded to the octogenarian Swede, Tomas Transtromer, who has been a perennial frontrunner Detail >>
People from all walks of life paid homage to the national poet Kazi Nazrul Islam placing wreaths at his grave on Dhaka University campus on the occasion of the poet’s 116th birth anniversary. They Detail >>
Today is 14 May. The 17th death anniversary of Shawkat Osman, a renowned novelist and short story writer of the country, is being observed. Shawkat Osman was born to be a writer so he never thought Detail >>
The 99th birth anniversary of Baul Samrat Shah Abdul Karim is being observed today (Sunday). Baul Samrat Shah Abdul Karim is a pioneering figure in Bangla folk music. He was born into a peasant Detail >>
The second death anniversary of most popular author, dramatist, film director and soap-opera maker of the country Humayun Ahmed is being observed on Saturday. Different socio-cultural organisations Detail >>
Poet Mohammad Nurul Huda – acclaimed as ‘Jatisattar Kobi’ or 'the poet of national identity' in English – will celebrate his 64th birthday on Monday. The poet’s 64th birthday celebration Detail >>
Legendary folk singer of the country Abdur Rahman Boyati breathed his last at the city’s Japan-Bangladesh Friendship Hospital Monday at 7:30am, after suffering long from chronic diseases. He was 76 Detail >>
The nation will celebrate the 114th birth anniversary of National Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam with festivity today. The 90th anniversary of the publication of poet's extraordinary creation 'Bidrohi' (Rebel Detail >>
Government has chalked out elaborate programs to mark the 116th birth anniversary of the national poet Kazi Nazrul Islam. The main program will be held in Comilla from May 25. Culture ministry Detail >>
The 154th birth anniversary of great poet Rabindranath Tagore is being observed in the country on Friday. The government has chalked out elaborate programmes marking the day. President Abdul Detail >>
The audio version of the book “I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up For Education And Changed The World”, by Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai, was honoured with the Best Children’s Album Detail >>
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the Nobel-winning Colombian author who used magical realism to tell epic stories of love, family and dictatorship in Latin America, died Thursday at the age of 87. Known Detail >>
The Afghan police arrested two militants on Monday in the execution-style murder of a Bengali writer who had written critically about the Taliban, in a memoir that was later made into a Bollywood Detail >>
In the eleventh century, the conservative Arab philosopher Ibn Ghazali wrote a book called “Incoherence of the Philosophers”. In this book he bitterly criticized the progressive minded Muslim Detail >>
Every year, on the birth anniversary of our National Poet, two Nazrul memorial centres — at Kazir Shimla and Darirampur in Trishal — are thronged by many. But the establishments require more Detail >>