Fiction writer Abdul Mannan Sarker (left) and poet Jewel MazharLit newsPoet Jewel Mazhar and fiction writer Abdul Mannan Sarker have won the Jibananda Award 2019 for their outstanding creative works. Jointly founded by Dhansiri Sahitya Saikat and Durbar, this year’s award was announced on February 18, on the eve of Jibanananda Das’s birth anniversary. The award-giving ceremony will be held on October 22 (Das’s death anniversary) in Barisal, Das’s ancestral city. Journalist by profession, poet Jewel Mazhar was born in 1962, in Kendua Upazila of Netrokona. Fiction writer Abdul Mannan Sarker is a professor.

Source: Dhaka Tribune February 24, 2019 12:33 UTC