BRAC Bank-Samakal Literature Award
# BRAC Bank-Samakal Literature Award

BRAC Bank and Daily Samakal launched the literary award in 2011 to inspire writers and litterateurs to further enriching Bangla literature with their creative works. Later, Young Writer's Award was dedicated in memory of late legendary novelist Humayun Ahmed. It's also known as BRAC Bank-Samakal Shahitya Puroshkar. The award given in three categories:

* poetry and novel category
* essay, autobiography, travel story and translation category
* Humayun Ahmed Young Writer category

Since its inception the literary award has generated huge enthusiasm in literary community of Bangladesh. Each year in all category more than four hundred books submitted to get award. A total of 472 books were submitted in 2015 for the three categories.

## Winners list

### 2011

* Syed Shamsul Haq
* Dravid Saikot
* Hasan Azizul Haq

### 2012

* Professor Dr. Anisuzzaman
* Bulbul Chowdhury
* Shuvashis Sinha

### 2013

* Moinul Ahsan Saber
* Mashrur Arefin
* Badrun Nahar

### 2014

* Harishangkar Jaldas
* Sushmita Islam
* Muzib Erom

### 2015

* Nirmalendu Goon
* Rajkumar Singha
* Swakrita Noman

### 2016

* Ahmad Rafique
* Jyoti Prakash Dutta
* Mazhar Sircar

### 2017

* Jatin Sarker
* Syed Manzoorul Islam
* Pias Majid

### 2018

* Sanjida Khatun
* Selina Hossain
* Swaralipi

### 2019

* Prof Serajul Islam Choudhury
* Helal Hafiz
* Mozaffor Hossain

### 2020

* Afsan Chowdhury
* Mohammad Rofiq
* Ronjona Bishwas
