Star Books Report

EVENT REPORT / Md Ashanur Rahman receives the International Creative Arts Award 2025

On January 18, 2026 novelist and essayist Md Ashanur Rahman was awarded The International Creative Arts Award 2025 by the International Creative Arts, Language & Development Research Centre of the University of Dhaka for his outstanding contribution to literature and its role in Enriching Minds and Inspiring Lives.

19 January 2026, 17:38 PM

NEWS REPORT / NSU DEML launches inaugural certificate course in creative writing

The six-week intensive program offers beginners and budding writers mentor-led guidance in fiction, poetry, and nonfiction, focusing on Bangladeshi cultural narratives

17 January 2026, 16:00 PM

EVENT REPORT / Bangladesh’s first interactive mental health book launched

The book features 15 chapters covering essential topics such as attachment styles, love languages, and shadow work.

15 January 2026, 13:43 PM

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NEWS REPORT / “Curious love letter”: Wole Soyinka responds after US cancels visa

He responded to the situation with grace, mentioning “I like people who have a sense of humour".

30 October 2025, 10:45 AM

NEWS REPORT / Gibran, illustrated: Zeina Abirached’s take on ‘The Prophet’

Particularly striking is her choice of working only in black and white, letting both the poetry and her art speak for themselves in their rawest forms.

28 September 2025, 13:45 PM

NEWS REPORT / Mother, memory, and defiance: Inside Arundhati Roy’s new memoir

The memoir situates Roy’s personal story alongside her public life as an outspoken critic of state power, globalisation, and inequality.

31 August 2025, 12:30 PM

EVENT REPORT / EWU hosts ‘7th Nahreen Khan Memorial Lecture’ with Dr Niaz Zaman

She discussed the increasing recognition of translated literature, as evidenced by prestigious awards such as the International Booker Prize and the Commonwealth Short Story Prize

17 July 2025, 12:33 PM

INTERVIEW / Embracing the bizarre and ‘An Eye and a Leg’

The Asia regional winner of the 2025 Commonwealth Short Story Prize, Faria Basher, in an interview with The Daily Star, opens up about her journey from lifelong reader to emerging writer.

4 June 2025, 18:00 PM

Gabriel García Márquez’s unseen novel will be published next year

The novel, which will span around 150 pages, tells the story of a woman named Ana Magdalena Bach, who visits a tropical island to lay flowers on her mother’s grave, and ends up having an affair.

7 May 2023, 13:00 PM

Amitav Ghosh's new book will revisit the 19th century opium trade

The book traces the transformative impact that the opium trade had on India, China, Britain and the United States, with profound long-term consequences for the birth of the modern world, and of contemporary globalism.

28 April 2023, 10:56 AM

Nadeem Zaman’s ‘The Inheritors’ to be produced for the screen by Sharbari Zohra Ahmed

Quantico writer Sharbari Zohra Ahmed will produce Nadeem Zaman's Gatsby-inspired novel set in Dhaka.

27 April 2023, 13:37 PM

SAJIDA Foundation, CholPori team up to improve child education

The startup is currently implementing pilot models with schools across the country to digitize classroom learning.

26 April 2023, 09:05 AM

Neil Gaiman and Colleen Hoover in 'Time' Magazine’s 2023 Most Influential list

The author’s work has been adapted in various mediums, including graphic novels and television series, with the most recent being Netflix’s The Sandman (2022).

16 April 2023, 12:45 PM

Dhaka’s Arman Chowdhury shortlisted for Commonwealth Short Story Prize ‘23

“Deficiency Notice” presents the daily life of an 11-year-old boy who is speech-impaired

6 April 2023, 03:00 AM

Penguin unveils the Penguin Book Vending Machine

The titles in the vending machines will be updated regularly, including both new and old books, and will highlight books relevant towards contemporary issues.

5 April 2023, 09:20 AM

A new children’s book depicts the warmth and diversity of Ramadan

Five chapters, each centred around key values of Islam, narrated by young Falak

2 April 2023, 08:31 AM

Discovered Tolkien letters reveal new sides of his work

The correspondence was part of an exchange between Tolkien and the British Council about funding for his research collaboration with his former Oxford student, Simonne d’Ardenne.

1 April 2023, 10:55 AM

Iowa’s International Writing Program now open to Bangladeshi youth

The virtual creative writing summer camp will take place from July 8 to 21, 2023. Applications are due by April 21.

29 March 2023, 10:01 AM

Jhumpa Lahiri’s first short story collection in 15 years

The latest bent in Jhumpa Lahiri's decades-long foray into Italian life and literature

28 March 2023, 07:42 AM

The University Press Limited heads to Chittagong

On Saturday, March 18, UPL will inaugurate its new sales centre in Chittagong at Jamal Khan Road’s Sanmar Spring Garden.

16 March 2023, 15:00 PM

5 new books to read this week

Set in the backdrop of a nameless forest, the narrative of the play 'Ekti Moragachh O Charjon Narir Shopnobhongo' revolves around characters of William Shakespeare’s creation.

16 March 2023, 00:00 AM

Grow Your Reader Foundation raises the 'Flag of Peace'

Grow Your Reader Foundation instals mobile, street, and online library stations in different corners of Bangladesh, and has been providing teacher training facilities since 2016.

13 March 2023, 14:34 PM

Love the Oscars winners? Here’s what you should read

The book behind the Oscar-winning adaptations, and books about the history of the award

13 March 2023, 11:36 AM

Ghazala Wahab to speak at ULAB Lit Salon on Tuesday

Also a journalist, Wahab will speak about her nonfiction, Born A Muslim, a book that talks about the increasing political irrelevance of Muslims in India and the importance of feminist interpretations of the Quran, besides highlighting other relevant socio political issues.

12 March 2023, 09:05 AM