BP Online Desk
Ekushey Padak-winning author Rizia Rahman died of cancer and kidney related ailments at a city hospital on Friday. She was 80.
The eminent writer breathed her last at the Intensive Care Unit of Apollo Hospital around 11.15 am.
Family sources said she was hospitalised on Tuesday with severe illness due to complications stemming from a blood transfusion.
Rizia Rahman had a number of novels and short stories to her credit.
She was best known for the novel Bong Theke Bangla. She was the recipient of Bangla Academy Literary Award.
She was born at Bhobanipur in Kolkata, India on December 28, 1939. She moved to Bangladesh along with her family after India, Pakistan partition in 1947.
She began writing stories at the age of 8 and was published for the first time when she was 12. Her stories and poems appeared in newspapers such as Satyajug and Sangbad.
She studied at the University of Dhaka and graduated with a Master of Social Sciences in Economics.
Her Novels are: Uttar Purush (Posterity, 1977), Rokter Okkhor (Blood Words, 1978), Bong Theke Bangla (Bengali to Bangla, 1978), Alikhito Upakhyan (An Unwritten Story, 1980), Surja Sabuj Rakta (Sun Green Blood, 1980), Shhilay Shilay Agun (Stones in Fire, 1980), Aranyer Kache (Near the Forest, 1980), Dhabal Jyotsna (White Moon-light, 1980), Ghar-Bhanga-Ghar (Broken-house, 1984), Ekal Chirokal (Now and Eternity, 1984), Prem Amar Prem (Love, My Love, 1985), Jharer Mukhomukhi (Facing the Storm, 1986), Ekti Phuler Janya (For a Flower, 1986), Shudhu Tomader Janya (Only for You, 1988), He manab Manabi (Oh! Man and Woman, 1989), Harun Phereni (Harun did not Return, 1994) and Nodi Nirobodhi (2011)
Her other books are: Letters of Blood: A Novel, Caged in Paradise and Other Stories, Śreshṭha Upanyāsa, Cāra Daśakera Galpa.
She received Bangla Academy Literary Award (1978), Jessore Sahitya Parishad Puraskar (1984), Bangladesh Lekhak Sangha Sahitya Padak (1985), Kamar Mushtari Sahitya Padak (1990)[12], ,Anannya Literature Award (1995), Humayun Kadir Sriti Puraskar, Jasimuddin Shwarna Padak, Shawgat Shwarna Padak and Ekushey Padak (2019).