Friday | 04:15 PM | Meet The Author: Reading and Discussion with Shaheen Akhtar Shaheen Akhtar is a notable Bangladeshi writer who won the “Prothom Alo Best Book Award“ in 2004 for her novel Talaash, which was translated by Ella Dutta into English as The Search and published by Zubaan in 2011. For her literary contributions, Shaheen Akthar has received the prestigious “Bangla Academy Award” (2015). In 2020 she won the 3rd Asian Literature Award. She writes both novels and short stories. Shaheen Akthar’s works have been translated into English, German, and Korean. Address Gebäude 4010 010.01.05 Voßstraße 2 69115 Heidelberg Homepage Event https://www.sai.uni-heidelberg.de/PDFs/shaheen_akhtar_print.pdf Organizer Südasien-Institut Homepage Organizer |