PEN Bangladesh

PEN Bangladesh is one of the 148 centers of PEN International.[1] It is a bilingual society of Bangladesh-based writers, poets, publishers, editors, translators, journalists and academics, aimed at promoting literature and defending the freedom of expression in Bangladesh.[2]

PEN Bangladesh
Formation1948
TypeLiterary organization
PurposePromote literature and defend freedom of expression in Bangladesh
HeadquartersDhaka, Bangladesh
Region served
Bangladesh
Official language
English, Bengali
Parent organization
PEN International
Websitepenintlbangladesh.org

For the 2018-2020 period, the current president of PEN Bangladesh is Syed Manzoorul Islam, Rabindra University Vice Chancellor Biswajit Ghose, writer Ahmed Reza and Maleka Ferdousi were elected vice presidents while Ferdousi Mahmud and Lovely Bashar were elected joint secretaries general of the committee.[3]

History

Bangladesh PEN was originally established in the year 1948 soon after the partition of India as the then Pakistan PEN by Muhammad Shahidullah as its president and Syed Ali Ahsan as the secretary general. After the liberation of Bangladesh in 1971, the Pakistan PEN in Bangladesh was renamed as Bangladesh PEN.[2][4]

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gollark: AND NOT ACTUALLY VECTOR/ARRAY-y.
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References
  1. "PEN Bangladesh celebrates Bangla New Year". Dhaka Tribune. Retrieved 2018-01-21.
  2. "PEN International - Bangladesh Centre". www.pen-international.org. Retrieved 2018-01-21.
  3. "Syed Manzoorul new president of Pen Bangladesh". The Daily Star. 2017-12-19. Retrieved 2018-01-21.
  4. "PEN Bangladesh: Protecting Digital Space From Raising Extremism - PEN America". PEN America. 2016-12-08. Retrieved 2018-01-21.
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