Novelist Rizia Rahman passes away

Staff Correspondent: Novelist Rizia Rahman is no more. She died at Apollo Hospital in the city on Friday morning.

She was 80 years.

She was suffering from cancer and kidney problem.

She has a number of novels and short stories to her credit. She is best known for the novel Bong Theke Bangla.

She was the recipient of Bangla Academy Literary Award (1978). As of 2018, she published more than 50 novels and short story collections in her long career.

Rizia Rahman was born on December 28, 1939 at Bhabanipur in Kolkata. Her family moved to Bangladesh, then known as East Bengal, after the 1947 Partition of India.
She began writing stories at the age of 8 and was published for the first time when she was 12.

Rahman studied at the University of Dhaka and graduated with a Master of Social Sciences in Economics.

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