Bangla Academy prizes announced

Asim Saha and Kamal Chowdhury have won this year's Bangla Academy award for poetry.

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Published : 18 Feb 2012, 08:29 AM
Updated : 18 Feb 2012, 08:29 AM
Dhaka, Feb 18 (bdnews24.com – Asim Saha and Kamal Chowdhury have won this year's Bangla Academy award for poetry.
The academy's director general Shamsuzzaman Khan announced their names on Saturday afternoon along with those of others who have got the award for their contribution in eight other fields.
Abdullah Abu Sayeed was honoured for his essays, professor Biswajit Ghosh for research, Kholiquzzaman Elias for translation, Belal Mohammad for Liberation War-based literature, Anisul Haque for fiction, Boren Chakraborty for travel literature, Akhter Hussain for children literature and Ali Azgar for his writings on science and technology.
However, the academy did not award any prizes in the field of drama due to a lack of suitable nominees, he added.
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