Dilara Hashem

Dilara Hashem (Bengali: দিলারা হাশেম; 25 August 1935 – 19 March 2022) was a Bangladeshi author and novelist.^[1][2] She was a recipient of the Bangla Academy Literary Award (1976).^[3]

Dilara Hashem
দিলারা হাশেম
Born	(1935-08-25)25 August 1935 Jessore, British Raj
Died	19 March 2022(2022-03-19) (aged 85) Maryland, US
Occupation(s)	Novelist and broadcaster
Awards	Bangla Academy Literary Award

She had a dual career as an eminent author and international broadcaster. As a writer, she maintained a steady literary output for four decades, with many volumes of novels, memoirs, short stories, and poetry.

Her 1965 debut novel Ghor Mon Janala (Home, Heart, Window) was a major success. The book garnered critical and popular praise and became a feature film in Bangladesh (1983). It was further published in Russian in Moscow and Chinese in Beijing.

Hashem died in Maryland on 19 March 2022 at the age of 86.^[4]

Works

Novels

• Ghar Mon Janala (Houses, Hearts and Windows, 1965)
• Ekoda Ebong Ananto (Once and Ever, 1975)
• Stabdhatar Kane Kane (Whispering to Silence, 1977)
• Amlokir Mou (The Sweet from the Bitterest, 1978)
• Badami Bikeler Galpo (Stories of a Brown Afternoon, 1983);
• Kaktaleya (Coincident, 1985)
• Mural (1986)
• Shankho Korat (Horns of a Dilemma 1995)
• Anukta Padaboli (Unspoken Verses, 1998)
• Sador Andor (Outer and Inner Part, 1998)
• Setu (Bridge, 2000)

Awards

• Bangla Academy Literary Award (1976)^[2]
• Shankhachil Sahitya Puraskar
• Uttar Chicago Shitya Puraskar (1997)