Ten distinguished personalities of the country have been nominated for the Bangla Academy Award 2024 for their contributions to different fields of literacy.The Bangla Academy Executive Council approved the Bangla Academy Literary Award as per the decision by the Bangla Academy Literary Award Committee in this regard, a notice said on Thursday, January 23.According to the notice, Masud Khan receives the award for poetry, Selim Morshed for fiction, Shubhashish Sinha for drama, Salimullah for essay, Faruk Nawaz for children’s literature, GH Habib for translation, Muhammad Shahjahan Mia for research, Rezaur Rahman for science, Mohammad Hannan for research on Liberation War, and Syed Jamil Ahmed for folklore. Chief Adviser of the interim government, Professor Muhammad Yunus, will hand over the award to the recipients at the inaugural programme of Amar Ekushey Book Fair 2025.