Dilara Hashem

Dilara Hashem (দিলারা হাশেম; 25 August 1935 – 19 March 2022) was a Bangladeshi author and novelist. She was a recipient of the Bangla Academy Literary Award(1976).

She had a dual career as an eminent author and international broadcaster. As a writer, she maintained a steady literary output for four decades, with many volumes of novels, memoirs, short stories, and poetry.

Her 1966 debut novel Ghor Mon Janala (Home, Heart, Window) was a major success. The book garnered critical and popular praise and became a feature film in Bangladesh (1983). It was further published in Russian in Moscow and Chinese in Beijing.

Hashem died in Maryland on 19 March 2022 at the age of 86.

Novels

 * Ghar Mon Janala (Houses, Hearts and Windows, 1965)
 * Ekoda Ebong Ananto (Once and Ever, 1975)
 * Stabdhatar Kane Kane (Whispering to Silence, 1977)
 * Amlokir Mou (The Sweet from the Bitterest, 1978)
 * Badami Bikeler  Galpo (Stories of a Brown Afternoon,  1983);
 * Kaktaleya (Coincident, 1985)
 * Mural (1986)
 * Shankho Korat (Horns of a Dilemma 1995)
 * Anukta Padaboli (Unspoken Verses, 1998)
 * Sador Andor (Outer and Inner Part, 1998)
 * Setu (Bridge, 2000)

Awards

 * Bangla Academy Literary Award (1976)
 * Shankhachil Sahitya Puraskar
 * Uttar Chicago Shitya Puraskar  (1997)