Addressing the inauguration ceremony of the book fair, Prothom Alo's managing editor and litterateur Anisul Haq said, “Wherever I go, I go on (Facebook) live. I do it on the roads, on the hills and while traveling in my car. I always use Grameenphone's 4G service for this. I am grateful to Grameenphone for this.”…
Passing by another stall, I saw many new faces, some of them new poets, budding fiction writers and so on. I stopped and started checking some books. A seller said, it has very nice poems, ma’am, please check. I turned the page and found it was fiction, maybe a thriller. I asked, “Really, which one…
Children’s time at the book fair
Author Scott McMillian was present at the book launch along with Asif Saleh, Executive Director of Brac, Tamara Hasan, Managing Director of Brac Enterprises and Samran Abed, Executive Director of Brac International. Sadaf Saaj, author and founding member of Dhaka Lit Fest, moderated the event. Scott McMillian, a former journalist, was a close associate of…
The three-day nonfiction book fair will begin on December 26. The fair is being organized by the University of Dhaka’s Faculty of Business Studies and Bonik Barta, reports UNB. The fair will begin at 10 am on December 26 and end on December 28 at the premises of the Business Faculty of Dhaka University. The…
Usman Ghani, former president of the Bangladesh Knowledge and Creative Publishers Association, alleged that a syndicate of businesses was inflating paper prices. They feel that the increase in the price of paper will force the publishers to cut printing by 50 percent. “When it is time for book fairs and printing of textbooks, the paper…
Export promotion bureau (EPB) in association of Bangladesh sub embassy in kolkata are going to organize a book fair from 26 september. A book society named ‘Bangladesh Gyan O Srijonshil Prokashak Samity’ took the initiative for the 3rd time. The fair will last until 2nd October. This fair will be at Gaganendra Shilpa Prodarshanshala of…
To symbol a 40th anniversary of independence, National Press Club has organized an eight-day book satisfactory during a bar premises. The satisfactory was inaugurated by remarkable educationist Sirajul Islam Chowdhury upon Dec 9. Kazi Rownak Hossain, behaving boss of a bar presided over a programme. Founding members Hasanuzzaman Khan, Ahmed Jaman Chowdhury as good as…
Bangladesh Export Promotion Bureau (BEPB) and Bangladesh High Commission in Kolkata, India — in association with Bangladesh Gyan o Srijonshil Prokashak Samiti — recently organised a five-day book fair. The fair was held at Gaganendranath Art Pradarshanshala in Nandan, Kolkata. Paschim Banga Minister for Education, Bratya Basu, inaugurated the fair. Mustafizur Rahman, Bangladesh Deputy High…
North South University Shangskritik Shangathan (NSUSS) had organized a 3 day prolonged book satisfactory from 27-29th Jun during a university campus to inspire a tyro readers.NSUSS orderly a book satisfactory which contained stalls of a little important publications houses similar to Ananya, Shomoy, Unmad, Anindya as great as most others.There were countless Bangla books of…
Participation of publishers and assorted organizations at the Ekushey Boi Mela is anytime increasing. To board them and the thronging visitors, the authorities accept understandably added the cardinal of stalls from 505 in 2010 to 556 this year. Besides publishing houses, there is a advanced ambit of stalls apery altered organizations: government, non-government, socio-cultural, political,…