Ekushey Book Fair started today

Bangladesh

Bangladeshis

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01 February 018, 10:34

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Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will inaugurate. The fair will be held here for more than a decade. The festival will be held in more than a dozen categories.

Aushe book fair file photo. February means the month of the month of the month. Readers, festive Bangali wait for 11 months for bookmakers. Today the waiting period ends.

The doors of these fairs that have gone on for more than four decades are going to be unveiled today on Thursday. The biggest part of the history of the fair is the publication of the book will be held on February 28. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will inaugurate Amar Ekushey Book Fair at 3:00 am today. He will also inaugurate the two-day International Literary Conference on February 22 and 23. After the inauguration, the Prime Minister will visit the book fair. The presence of foreign guest writers will be attended by Agnes Midos of Cambridge, Cameroon's Joy Assassination, Egypt's Ibrahim Elmasari and Sweden's Aron Johnson. The Prime Minister will give Bangla Academy Literary Award -2017 at the function.

Shamsuzzaman Khan, Director General of Bangla Academy, organizers of the fair about the overall preparation of the fair said that all preparations have already been completed by working on a plan to gift more beautiful and beautiful fairs than ever before. It is expected that the fair will be aesthetically more successful than any other time.

Meanwhile, Culture Minister Asaduzzaman Noor visited the fair premises yesterday afternoon. He said, at the beginning of the book fair every time, the work remains incomplete. Then Bangla Academy, publisher, buyer-all made matching arrangements like magic. Though the construction of stalls is still incomplete, all the work will be completed from the beginning of the fair.

In front of the Amar Ekushey book fair in the month of the month, the two premises of the fair are now prepared in the Bangla Academy premises and Suhrawardy Udyan. In the 5 lakh square feet area, 455 institutions have been allocated 719 units and 25 pavilions of 15 thousand 536 square feet of 24 publishing companies including Bangla Academy. In addition, 136 Little Magazine has been allotted 'Little Magazine Corner' stall. This year, children will be in the Suhrawardy Udyan of the fair. The 'Child Prohar' will be announced in the book fair this month. The fair is open from three to nine nights every day without the holidays.