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Native name
  
রাজিয়া খান

Name
  
Razia Khan

Role
  
Novelist


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Awards
  
Ekushey PadakBangla Academy Award

Died
  
December 28, 2011, Dhaka, Bangladesh

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Razia Khan Amin (1936 – 28 December 2011) was a Bangladeshi writer, poet and educationist. She was also a journalist, theatre actor and columnist for newspapers. She was awarded Ekushey Padak in 1997 for her contribution to education by the Government of Bangladesh.

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Education and career

Khan completed her bachelors and masters in English from the University of Dhaka. She went to University of Birmingham on a scholarship from the [[[British Council]] for higher studies.

Khan joined the editorial board of the then Pakistan Observer (later renamed The Bangladesh Observer). She then joined as a faculty member of the Department of English of the University of Dhaka.

At the age of 18, Khan wrote her first novel Bot tolar Upannayash in 1958.

Novels

  • Bot tolar Upannayash (Novel of the Wayside, 1959)
  • Anukalpa (The Alrternative,1959)
  • Proticitra (The Blue-Print, 1975)
  • Citra-kabya (Picturesque Verses, 1980)
  • He Mohajibon (O! Eternal Life, 1983)
  • Draupadi (1992)
  • Padatik (The Pedestrian, 1996)
  • Brhastonir
  • Shikhor Himaddrir
  • Bandi Bihongo
  • Awards

  • PEN Lay Writing Award (1956)
  • Pope Gold Medal (as Distinguished Student of Dhaka university, 1957)
  • Bangla Academy Literary Award (1975)
  • Qamar Mushtari Gold Medal (1985)
  • Ekushey Padak (1997)
  • Lekhika Sangha Gold Medal (1998)
  • Druhee Katha-Shahityak Abdur Rouf Choudhury Memorial Award (1999)
  • Anannya Literature Award (2003)
  • References

    Razia Khan Wikipedia