Dilara Hashem

Dilara Hashem (Bengali: দিলারা হাশেম; 25 August 1935 – 19 March 2022) was a Bangladeshi author and novelist. She was a recipient of the Bangla Academy Literary Award(1976). She had a dual career as an eminent author and international broadcaster. As a writer, she maintained a steady literary output for four decades, with many volumes of novels, memoirs, short stories, and poetry. Her 1966 debut novel Ghor Mon Janala (Home, Heart, Window) was a major success. The book garnered critical and popular praise and became a feature film in Bangladesh (1983). It was further published in Russian in Moscow and Chinese in Beijing.