Bangla Academy Literary Award 2024 Suspended

The government has suspended the Bangla Academy Literary Award-2024.

The suspension decision came two days after its announcement to honour ten individuals for their outstanding contributions to various aspects of Bangla literature.

A notice signed by the Director General of the Bangla Academy Professor Mohammad Azam was issued on Saturday.

On 23 January, the academy announced the names of ten eminent writers for the award.

Playwright Syed Jamil Ahmed was supposed to receive Bangla Academy Literary Award for folklore, essayist Salimullah Khan for essays, Masud Khan for poetry, Selim Morshed for fiction, Shubhashish Sinha for drama and playwriting, Faruk Nawaz for children's literature, GH Habib for translation, Mohammad Shahjahan Mia for research, Rezaur Rahman for science and Mohammad Hanan for liberation war.