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Humayun Azad to get Ekushey Padak
Tareque Masud, Mishuk Munier and 12 others are also selected for the highest civilian award
Published : 9 Feb 2012, 01:10 PM
Updated : 9 Feb 2012, 01:10 PM
Dhaka, Feb 9 (bdnews24.com) – The government has nominated late Dhaka University professor and writer Humayun Azad for the Ekushey Padak 2012 for his contribution to Bengali language and literature.
Apart from Azad, eminent filmmaker Tareque Masud, and journalist Ashfak (Mishuk) Munier Chowdhury, who died in a road crash last year, and 13 others were selected for the highest civilian award, a government statement said Thursday.
The awards will be conferred on them on Feb 20.
Azad, a Bangla department teacher, played an outstanding role to enrich the language and became an enemy of the aggressive religious extremists for his works on religion in politics.
He was attacked by unidentified miscreants on his way back home from Amar Ekushey Book Fair on Feb 27, 2004. He had died in Germany in May the same year.
After his novel Pak Sar Jamin Sad Bad was first published in The Daily Ittefaq's Eid supplement in 2003, where he tried to expose the politics and ideology of Islamic fundamentalists in Bangladesh, he had started receiving death threats.
His elder daughter Mouli Azad expressed his satisfaction over the announcement.
"I feel good, though the recognition of my father's work for Bangla language and literature came too late," she said.
She demanded that the brutal attack on Azad be tried quickly.
The others recipients of the award are language hero Mamtaz Begum (posthumous), and Mobinul Azim (posthumous), Dr Enamul Haque, Mamunur Rashid and Prof Karunamoy Goswami for arts, Ehtesham Haider Chowdhury (posthumous), Ashfak (Mishuk) Munier Chowdhury (posthumous) and Habibur Rahman Milon for journalism, Prof Ajay Kumar Roy, Dr Mansurul Alam Khan and Dr A K Nazmul Karim (posthumous) for education, Prof Baren Chakrabarty for science and technology and Srimat Shuddananda Mahathero for philanthropy.
Each award includes Tk 100,000, a 35-gram gold medal and a citation.
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