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Renowned writer Rabia Khatun (6) passed away on Sunday.
According to family sources, he died at his home in Gulshan around 7pm today.
Rabia Khatun has been awarded numerous awards and honors, including Swadhinata Puraskar, Ekushey Padak, and Bangla Academy. He had a successful career in all branches of literature. His more than 100 books include novels, research essays, short stories, religious tales, travel diaries, teen novels, memoirs, etc. Numerous plays, biographies and series written by him have been broadcast on radio and television. Several movies have been made in its history.
His novel based on the liberation war ‘Cloud after Cloud’ is a popular movie. ‘Madhumati’ and ‘Sometimes clouds, sometimes rain’ have also been praised across the board.
Besides writing, he has also done teaching and journalism. In addition to the daily Ittefaq and the film magazine, in the 1950s a monthly called ‘Angana’ was published under his own direction.
Rabia Khatun was born in 1935. His father Maulvi Mohammad Mulluk Chand and his mother Hamida Khatun.
In 1952, she married ATM Fazlul Haque, editor and film director of the country’s first film magazine. His four children are Faridur Reza Sagar, Keka Ferdousi, Farhadur Reza Prabal and Farhana Kakli.
Rabia Khatun has written more than fifty novels. So far, her four-volume short stories have totaled more than 400. Rabia Khatun is one of the travel literature writers in Bangladesh. Shortly after the publication of his first novel Madhumati (1973), he became known as a novelist.
He has recorded the impressive days of the liberation war in his book ‘Ekattarer Nai Mas’ (1990).
Rabeya Khatun has won Ekushey Padak (1993), Bangla Academy Award (1983), Nasiruddin Gold Medal (1995), Humayun Smriti Award (1989), Komar Mushtari Sahitya Puraskar (1994), Bangladesh Lekhika Sangha Award (1994), Sher. -E-Bangla Gold Medal (1997), Rishi Sahitya Padak (1997), Laila Samad Prize (1999) and Ananya Sahitya Prize (1999). He received the Natyasabha Award (1996) for short story. He has won the Shapla Doyle Award (1996), the Atish Dipankar Award (1997), and the Euro Children’s Literature Award (2003) for his science fiction and teen novels. He received the Tenashinas Award (1996), the Bacchus Award (Bangladesh Film Journalists Association), the Millennium Award from the Bangladesh Cultural Reporters Association (2000), the Television Reporters Award (2000) for Television Drama .
