Nilima Ibrahim

Neelima Ibrahim
নীলিমা ইব্রাহীম
Director General of Bangla Academy
In office
12 August 1974 – 6 June 1975
Preceded byMazharul Islam
Succeeded byMustafa Nur-Ul Islam
Personal details
Born
Neelima Roy Chowdhury

(1921-10-11)11 October 1921
Mulghar, Fakirhat, Bagerhat, British India
Died18 June 2002(2002-06-18) (aged 81)
Dhaka, Bangladesh
NationalityBangladeshi
SpouseMuhammad Ibrahim
EducationPhD (Bengali literature)
Alma mater
Occupationwriter, educationist
Awardsfull list

Neelima Ibrahim (11 October 1921 – 18 June 2002) was a Bangladeshi educationist, littérateur and social worker. She is well known for her scholarship on Bengali literature but even more so for her depiction of raped and tortured women in the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War in her book Ami Birangana Bolchi.[1] She was awarded Bangla Academy Literary Award in 1969, Begum Rokeya Padak in 1996 and Ekushey Padak in 2000 by the Government of Bangladesh for her contributions to Bangla literature.[2][3]

  1. ^ Islam, Sirajul (2012). "Ibrahim, Nilima". In Islam, Sirajul; Ali, Zeenat (eds.). Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh (Second ed.). Asiatic Society of Bangladesh.
  2. ^ পুরস্কারপ্রাপ্তদের তালিকা [Winners list] (in Bengali). Bangla Academy. Archived from the original on 6 June 2017. Retrieved 23 August 2017.
  3. ^ একুশে পদকপ্রাপ্ত সুধীবৃন্দ [Ekushey Padak winners list] (in Bengali). Government of Bangladesh. Retrieved 23 August 2017.

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