Bangabandhu conferred ‘FOSWAL Literature Award’ for his trilogy

Category : Awards Published on: March 29 2023

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The Foundation of SAARC Writers and Literature (FOSWAL) has conferred 'Special Literary Award' to Bangladesh’s Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman for his trilogy- The Unfinished Memoirs, The Prison Diaries and New China 1952.
Eminent Punjabi novelist and FOSWAL Founder President Ajeet Cour handed over the award to visiting Bangladeshi writers and researchers Ramendu Majumder and Mofidul Haque at the festival.
SAARC Literary Award is an annual award conferred by the Foundation of SAARC Writers and Literature (FOSWAL) since 2001.
The citation said that Sheikh Mujib is a towering figure of national liberation of oppressed people of the world. Comparing him to Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, the citation said that no power on earth can erase him from history.