Fifteen authors and writers were named today as the winners of the Bangla Academy Sahitya Puroskar-2022..They are Farook Mahmud and Tarik Sujat (poetry), Tapash Majumder and Parvez Hossain (novel), Masud Uzzaman (essay/research), Alam Khorshed (translation), Milon Kanti Dey and Farid Ahmed

Saleha Chowdhury has been nominated in the Ajibon Shommanona (Lifetime Award 2022) category. Translators Venkateswar Ramaswamy and Shahroza Nahrin were jointly nominated in the Borshoshera Onudito Boi 2022 (Best Translated Book of the Year 2022) category.

Haiku is a poem in three lines that captures the image of a single moment in the reader’s mind.

Ulpur village served as the seat of the Zamindari and Jagir of the Basu Roy Chowdhury family.

Here, Rapunzel, Hercules, Bon Bibi, and King Solomon might be having a gala time over tea, or fighting their own battles.

These characters, human and machine alike, are invited to provide witness statements about their working environment to a commission, which form the entirety of the novel—a design that helps Ravn bring about an atmosphere of tension.

Visiting the Livaria Lello transports any Harry Potter fan to Flourish and Blotts.

The 216-year-old building of the former British Residency of Hyderabad (also known as Koti Residency or Hyderabad Residency) has been fully restored after a remodelling work of nearly 20 years.

"I realised I had to start again as a person and a writer. I had to become a comic writer, a serious writer, a writer who could integrate the madness and most interesting elements on the same page."

The more than 1,000 stolen manuscripts included a work by a Pulitzer Prize-winning author.

Syed Afzal Hasan Uddin says of first generation immigrants that they—who are already grappling with the duality of their multifaceted identities—were not seen as being Bengali enough by their parents.

The difficulty of translation is one of the reasons why Nazrul is not discussed as extensively as Tagore in the west.

Readers are questioning how “a coloring book was ever going to ‘tastefully mirror Lilly Bloom’s story’ of violent domestic abuse.”

This year a ticketing system was imposed. As such, sales were lower than expected.

With a Books page you're creating a running history of the ideas and the parallel history or the imagination of a country.

The panel spoke broadly about censorship, #MeToo movement, mob mentality, cancel culture, JK Rowling, and social media echo chambers. 

Banks, a professor emeritus at Princeton University, died Saturday in upstate New York, his editor, Dan Halpern, told The Associated Press. Banks was being treated for cancer.

The last day of the 10th Dhaka Lit Fest today began on a calmer note.

"I started my journey with a simple dream of writing a book for my children", she shared at the talk. 

Despite the popularity of TV, cinematic rights come with their drawbacks. While it is thrilling for a novelist to have their work taken up by a production house, sometimes their work ends up in a forgotten corner for a long time.