Eminent novelist Rabeya Khatun passed away on Sunday evening. She breathed her last around 6:00 pm at her house in Gulshan. She was 86.
She was awarded Bangla Academy Literary Award in 1973, Ekushey Padak in 1993 and Independence Day Award in 2017 by the government.
Khatun was born on 27 December 1935 to Maulavi Mohammad Mulluk Chand and Hamida Khatun in Bikrampur in the then Bengal Presidency, British India (now in Munshiganj district, Bangladesh). Khatun grew up Shantinagar area in Dhaka.
She worked at Khawatin magazine, edited by Jahanara Imam. She then worked as the editor of the literature section of the magazine Cinema along with Zahir Raihan. Later she became the editor of the monthly Angana.
Khatun is a council member of Bangla Academy. She is a member of the jury board of Bangladesh National Film Awards, Bangladesh Shishu Academy, Notun Kuri of Bangladesh Television.
She has written over 50 novels and more than 400 short stories. Her works include essays, novels, research, short stories, religious history and travelogues.
