BANGLADESH NEWS
The next Amar Ekushey Book Fair, country's largest book festival, will be dedicated to late celebrated author, playwright and filmmaker Humayun Ahmed, Bangla Academy Chairman Professor Anisuzzaman has said.
"Besides, his manuscripts and things marking his memories will be preserved at the Writer and Laureate Museum set up in the Bangla Academy complex," he said at a meeting organised at Bangla Academy on Thursday to pay tribute to the noted litterateur.
For over two decades, the books written by Humayun Ahmed topped sales in the Ekushey Book Fair, which marks the heroic Language Movement. Publishers admit that the writer contributed most to the present healthy condition of the publication industry in Bangladesh.
Bangla Academy Director General Shamsuzzaman Khan also said that that they would publish a commemorative book containing written discussion on 10 selected novels of the late writer.
"A series of written discussions will be arranged in the next three months centering 10 selected novels of Humayun Ahmed. Later, a commemorative book will be published comprising the discussions."
Khan said a special publication on Humayun Ahmed would also be published soon in 'Uttaradhikar', the periodical journal of the Academy.
Addressing the meeting, Information Minister Abul Kalam Azad said, "Humaun Ahmed had made a multidimensional contribution to the Bengali literature. His creations have crossed the national boundaries and also received international accolades."
"Such a great writer can never die. He will remain alive among the readers through the coming generations," he added.
Chaired by Prof Anisuzzaman, the meeting was also addressed, among others, by famous author and novelist Selina Hossain, poet and writer Syed Shamsul Haque, journalists Saleh Chowdhury and Anisul Haque, Publisher Alamgir Rahman, poet Aslam Sani, cultural activists Golam Kuddus, Muhammad Jahangir and Mohit Kamal, and Cultural Affairs Secretary Suriya Begum.
"Besides, his manuscripts and things marking his memories will be preserved at the Writer and Laureate Museum set up in the Bangla Academy complex," he said at a meeting organised at Bangla Academy on Thursday to pay tribute to the noted litterateur.
For over two decades, the books written by Humayun Ahmed topped sales in the Ekushey Book Fair, which marks the heroic Language Movement. Publishers admit that the writer contributed most to the present healthy condition of the publication industry in Bangladesh.
Bangla Academy Director General Shamsuzzaman Khan also said that that they would publish a commemorative book containing written discussion on 10 selected novels of the late writer.
"A series of written discussions will be arranged in the next three months centering 10 selected novels of Humayun Ahmed. Later, a commemorative book will be published comprising the discussions."
Khan said a special publication on Humayun Ahmed would also be published soon in 'Uttaradhikar', the periodical journal of the Academy.
Addressing the meeting, Information Minister Abul Kalam Azad said, "Humaun Ahmed had made a multidimensional contribution to the Bengali literature. His creations have crossed the national boundaries and also received international accolades."
"Such a great writer can never die. He will remain alive among the readers through the coming generations," he added.
Chaired by Prof Anisuzzaman, the meeting was also addressed, among others, by famous author and novelist Selina Hossain, poet and writer Syed Shamsul Haque, journalists Saleh Chowdhury and Anisul Haque, Publisher Alamgir Rahman, poet Aslam Sani, cultural activists Golam Kuddus, Muhammad Jahangir and Mohit Kamal, and Cultural Affairs Secretary Suriya Begum.
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