Eminent fiction writer and literary critic Kazi Anis Ahmed and litterateur Mohammad Moheuddin on Saturday were elected President and Secretary General of Executive Committee 2021-2023 at the organization’s 47th Annual General Meeting on Zoom. Former PEN Bangladesh president Syed Manzoorul Islam elected as executive adviser of new committee.
Election for the new committee was conducted by fiction writer Moinul Ahsan Saber and poets Asad Mannan and Shihab Shahariar, said a press release. In his speech, Kazi Anis Ahmed said: “The new committee will be the platform through which issues like freedom of expression and quality translation of Bengali literature will be upheld.”
For the post of vice president, Rabindra University Vice Chancellor Biswajit Ghose, writer Ahmed Reza, Maleka Ferdous, Salma Bani and Poet Shamim Reza were elected. Ferdousi Mahmud and Lovely Bashar were elected as joint secretary general; Shakira Parveen was elected treasurer; Journalist Mohshin Habib was elected Publicity Secretary and Zahid Shohag Office Secretary of the new committee.
For the post of executive member, fiction writer Parvez Hossain, Hamim Kamrul Hoque, Mohammad Mohsin, Anis Mohammad, Masud Hasan, and writer Zahanara Parveen were elected.
