Shawkat Osman’s birthday today
Manzurul Alam Mukul || risingbd.com
Shawkat Osman
Staff Correspondent: Today (January 2) is the 98th birth anniversary of novelist and short story writer Shawkat Osman.
Shawkat Osman’s real name was Sheikh Azizur Rahman. He was one of the leading Bengali litterateurs of the last century.
Born in the village Shabolshinghapur, Hooghly, West Bengal in 1917, he started his professional career as a teacher by joining Chittagong Commerce College in 1947.
He wrote many novels, short stories, poems, drama, stories and books for children under the pen name of Shawkat Osman.
“Jononi”, his first novel, was published in 1958, and his “Kritodasher Hashi”, is a widely acclaimed novel.
He received many awards and accolades including Adamji Sahitya Award in 1962, Bangla Academy Award in 1966, Ekushey Padak in 1983 and the Independence Day Award in 1997.
He died in 1998.
Marking his birth anniversary, Kathashilpi Shawkat Osman Smriti Parishad will organise a memorial programme.
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