Dhaka, Feb. 2 -- Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has handed over Bangla Academy Literary Award 2023 to 16 recipients in 11 categories for their outstanding contribution to various fields of literature.

She distributed the award among the winners at the opening ceremony of the Amar Ekushey Book Fair on Thursday (Feb 1).

The winners are-Shamim Azad (poetry), Nuruddin Jahangir and Salma Bani (fiction), Zulfikar Matin (essay/research), Saleha Chowdhury (translation), Mrittika Chakma and Masud Pathik (drama), Tapankar Chakraborty (children's literature), Afroza Parvin and Asaduzzaman Asad (Liberation War-based research), Saifullah Mahmud Dulal and Md Mujibur Rahman (studies on Bangabandhu), Enam Ul Haque (science/science fiction/environmental s...