BRAC Bank and Daily Samakal launched the literary award in 2011 to inspire writers and litterateurs to further enriching Bangla literature with their creative works. Later, Young Writer's Award was dedicated in memory of late legendary novelist Humayun Ahmed. It's also known as BRAC Bank-Samakal Shahitya Puroshkar. The award given in three categories: poetry and novel category essay, autobiography, travel story and translation category Humayun Ahmed Young Writer category Since its inception the literary award has generated huge enthusiasm in literary community of Bangladesh. Each year in all category more than four hundred books submitted to get award. A total of 472 books were submitted in 2015 for the three categories.

Winners list

2011

Syed Shamsul Haq

Dravid Saikot

Hasan Azizul Haq

2012

Professor Dr. Anisuzzaman

Bulbul Chowdhury

Shuvashis Sinha

2013

Moinul Ahsan Saber

Mashrur Arefin

Badrun Nahar

2014

Harishangkar Jaldas

Sushmita Islam

Muzib Erom

2015

Nirmalendu Goon

Rajkumar Singha

Swakrita Noman

2016

Ahmad Rafique

Jyoti Prakash Dutta

Mazhar Sircar

2017

Jatin Sarker

Syed Manzoorul Islam

Pias Majid

2018

Sanjida Khatun

Selina Hossain

Swaralipi

2019

Prof Serajul Islam Choudhury

Helal Hafiz

Mozaffor Hossain

2020

Afsan Chowdhury

Mohammad Rofiq

Ronjona Bishwas

References

Bangladeshi literary awards

BRAC Bank-Samakal Literature Award