Two get Shawkat Osman Literary Award

Staff Correspondent: Writers Harun Pasha and Rashed Rahman have been rewarded with ‘Shawkat Osman Literary Award’.

The awards were handed over to them at a programme organised by Kothashilpi Shawkat Osman Smriti Parishad marking his 102nd birth anniversary at the Central Library in the city on Wednesday.Tagore researcher and language movement veteran Ahmad Rafique, also president of Kothashilpi Shawkat Osman Smriti Parishad, presided over the occasion.

Shawkat Osman was born on January 2, 1917 in Hooghli, West Bengal, India. His real name was Sheikh Azizur Rahman while Shawkat Osman was his penname. After the partition, Osman settled in East Pakistan.

Though known mainly as a novelist, he also excelled in a number of genres such as short stories, essays, plays, humorous writings, memoirs and books for children.


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