Bangladesh Centre Executive Committee 2018-20
Photograph of the 2018-20 Bangladesh Centre's Executive Committee celebrating newly elected members. Among them are, with their corresponding roles at that time: Syed Manzoorul Islam, president; Mohammad Moheuddin, secretary;...
Farida Hossain and Nadine Gordimer
Photograph of Farida Hossain, on the left, president of the Bangladesh Centre (2003-18) with South African author and Nobel laureate Nadine Gordimer, on the right. Rummana Chowdhury, member of...
Syed Ali Ahsan
Photograph of Syed Ali Ahsan, second president of Bangladesh Centre. Ahsan played a key role in the formalisation of the Constitution of Bangladesh and the Constitution of the Bangla...
Farida Hossain
Photograph of Farida Hossain, third president of the Bangladesh Centre (2003-18). Hossain became a member of the Bangladesh Centre in 1990 and represented the Centre at the 64th PEN...
Mohammad Moheuddin
Photograph of Mohammad Moheuddin, secretary general of the Centre Bangladesh (2012-). Moheuddin represented the Bangladesh Centre at both the 78th PEN International Congress in Gyeongju, South Korea, 2012, and...
Syed Manzoorul Islam
Photograph of Syed Manzoorul Islam, president of Bangladesh Centre (2018-20). In 1996, The Bangla Academy awarded Islam the Bangla Academy Literary Prize. In 2005 Porthom Alo, a leading Bangladeshi...
Moheuddin at the 84th Congress
Photograph of Mohammad Moheuddin, general secretary of the Bangladesh Centre (2012-), who represented the Bangladesh Centre during the 84th PEN International Congress in Pune, India, 2018. This Congress took...
Participants at the 84th Congress
Photograph of PEN members at the 84th PEN International Congress in Pune, India, 2018, which took place on 25-29 September. The title of this Congress was Experiments with Truth.
Mohammad Shahidullah
Photograph of Mohammad Shahidullah, who became the first president of the Bangladesh Centre after it was founded in 1948. Shahidullah, who is considered one of the greatest Bengali writers...
The 78th Congress participants
Photograph of PEN members and literary associates at the 78th PEN International Congress, in Gyeongju, South Korea, 2012. Among them are: Wole Soyinka, who received the Nobel Prize for...
John Ralston Saul and Farida Hossain
Photograph of John Ralston Saul, on the left, president of PEN International (2009-15), with Farida Hossain, on the right, president of the Bangladesh Centre (2003-18). This photograph was taken...
Jennifer Clement and Mohammad Moheuddin
Photograph of PEN members at the 84th PEN International Congress in Pune, India, 2018, which took place on 25-29 September and was titled Experiments with Truth. Among them are...
Le Clézio and Moheuddin at the 78th Congress
Photograph of Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, on the left, winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize for Literature, with Mohammad Moheuddin, on the right, general secretary of the Bangladesh Centre...
Wole Soyinka and Mohammad Moheuddin
Photograph of Mohammad Moheuddin, on the left, general secretary of the Bangladesh Centre (2012-) with Wole Soyinka, winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize for Literature. This photograph was taken...