BRAC Bank-Samakal Literature Award

BRAC Bank-Samakal Literary Award
CountryBangladesh
Presented byBRAC Bank and Daily Samakal
Reward(s)BDT 200,000
First awarded2011-present
Websitewww.bracbank.com/link/bracbank_samakal.html

BRAC Bank and Daily Samakal launched the literary award in 2011 to inspire writers and litterateurs to further enriching Bangla literature with their creative works. Later, Young Writer's Award was dedicated in memory of late legendary novelist Humayun Ahmed.[1] It's also known as BRAC Bank-Samakal Shahitya Puroshkar. The award given in three categories:

  • poetry and novel category
  • essay, autobiography, travel story and translation category
  • Humayun Ahmed Young Writer category

Since its inception the literary award has generated huge enthusiasm in literary community of Bangladesh. Each year in all category more than four hundred books submitted to get award. A total of 472 books were submitted in 2015 for the three categories.

Winners list

2011

2012

2013

2014

  • Harishangkar Jaldas
  • Sushmita Islam
  • Muzib Erom[1]

2015

2016

  • Ahmad Rafique
  • Jyoti Prakash Dutta
  • Mazhar Sircar[4]

2017

  • Jatin Sarker
  • Syed Manzoorul Islam
  • Pias Majid[5]

2018

  • Sanjida Khatun
  • Selina Hossain
  • Swaralipi[6]

2019

  • Prof Serajul Islam Choudhury
  • Helal Hafiz
  • Mozaffor Hossain[7]

2020

  • Afsan Chowdhury
  • Mohammad Rofiq
  • Ronjona Bishwas[7]

References

  1. ^ a b "3 litterateurs win 'BRAC Bank-Samakal Sahitya Puroshkar 2014'". Daily Sun. Dhaka. Retrieved June 13, 2015.
  2. ^ "BRAC Bank-Samakal Shahitya Puroshkar awarded". The News Today. Retrieved June 22, 2014.
  3. ^ "Three writers win BRAC-Samakal award". New Age. Archived from the original on 2016-10-30. Retrieved June 15, 2015.
  4. ^ "Ahmad Rafique, Jyoti Prakash Dutta, Mazhar Sircar get BRAC Bank-Samakal Literature Award 2016". bdnews24.com.
  5. ^ "3 writers get BRAC Bank-Samakal literary award". New Age.
  6. ^ "Three win BRAC Bank-Samakal Literary Award". The Business Standard.
  7. ^ a b "Six litterateurs won Brac Bank-Samakal Literary Award for 2019, 2020". The Business Standard.