Bangla Academy Literary Award winners named

The winners of Bangla Academy Literary Award-2014 have been announced, reports BSS.
They are: Poet Shihab Sarkar (Poetry), Zakir Talukdar (Fiction), Professor Shantanu Kaisar (Essay), Professor Bhuiyan Iqbal (Research), Professor Abu Muhammad Delowar Hossain (Liberation War Literature), Mainus Sultan (Travelogue) and Khaled Bin Zainuddin (Juvenile Literature).
A five-member jury headed by Emeritus Professor Rafiqul Islam made the selection. Other members of the jury were Editor Abul Hasnat of literary magazine, Kali-Kolom, Professor Syed Manjurul Islam, Poet Asad Chowdhury and Professor Hayat Mahmud.