Gaffar Chowdhury named for PIB award
Wednesday, 22 October 2014
Eminent columnist, poet, litterateur and a veteran of the historic Language Movement of 1952 Abdul Gaffar Chowdhury will be decorated with this year's PIB-Sohel Samad Memorial Award. The three-member jury board headed by Prof Dr Sakhawat Ali Khan nominated him as the recipient of this year's award of the Press Institute of Bangladesh (PIB)-Sohel Samad Memorial Award for his contributions to column writing, according to a news agency.