Writer Rabeya Khatun no more

Eminent writer Rabeya Khatun has passed away at the age of 86.

She breather her last at 6:00pm on Sunday (January 3), Channel I Assignment Editor Faisal confirmed.

Born on December 27, 1935, Rabeya Khatun was popular for her fiction write up. Once she was teacher. The writer was also involved with journalist profession too. She was editor of the monthly magazine Angana.

She was awarded Bangla Academy Literary Award in 1973, Ekushey Padak in 1993 and Independence Day Award in 2017. Her novel Rajarbagh was published in Begum. Rabeya Khatun wrote her first novel Madhumati in 1963.