Bangla Academy on Wednesday night announced the revised list of its literary award recipients after a review meeting of the executive council.
The academy director general, Mohammad Azam, announced the list on the academy鈥檚 official Facebook page.
According to the Facebook post, the academy eliminated three names from the previous award list.
Those excluded from the list are Selim Morshed in the fiction category, Faruk Nawaz in children鈥檚 literature, and Muhammad Hannan in the War of Independence category while the academy did not include any new person in the revised list instead of them following its policy.
According to the section nine of the fourth chapter of the Bangla Academy Literary Award Policy, the executive council cannot consider a new person for the award and the council also reserves the right not to consider any recommendation according to the section 10.
On the revised list, seven litterateurs were named as the winners of the prestigious award.
The awardees are Masud Khan in the poetry category, Shuvashis Sinha in drama and dramatic literature, Salimullah Khan in essay/prose, GH Habib in translation, Muhammad Shahjahan Mian in research, Rezaur Rahman in science and Syed Jamil Ahmed in folklore.
Amid the controversy about the issue, poet Sajjad Sharif has resigned from the executive committee of Bangla Academy on Thursday.
鈥業 don鈥檛 know how the resignation letter circulated on social media but I have said what I want to express about the literary award and the Bangla Academy issue,鈥� said Sajjad Sharif.
After being excluded from the award list in the War of Independence category, Muhammad Hannan expressed thanks to the academy on Thursday.
鈥業 have worked a lot for the past 40 years but have not been selected for any national recognition. After excluding my name from the award list, the academy proved that I am a non-partisan author,鈥� said Muhammad Hannan.
Earlier, amid the controversy, writer Selim Morshed had rejected the Bangla Academy Literary Award 2024 in a Facebook post on Sunday.
The Bangla Academy initially announced the awards on January 23, but suspended them on January 25 following criticisms from litterateurs.