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Dilara Hashem দিলারা হাশেম | |
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Died | 19 March 2022
Maryland, USA | (aged 85)
Occupation(s) | Novelist and Broadcaster |
Awards | Bangla Academy Literary Award |
Dilara Hashem ( Bengali: দিলারা হাশেম; 25 August 1935 – 19 March 2022) was a Bangladeshi author and novelist. [1] [2] She was a recipient of the Bangla Academy Literary Award(1976).
She had a dual career as an eminent author and international broadcaster. As a writer, she maintained a steady literary output for four decades, with many volumes of novels, memoirs, short stories, and poetry.
Her 1966 debut novel Ghor Mon Janala (Home, Heart, Window) was a major success. The book garnered critical and popular praise and became a feature film in Bangladesh (1983). It was further published in Russian in Moscow and Chinese in Beijing.
Hashem died in Maryland on 19 March 2022 at the age of 86. [4]