Rokeya Lita
| Rokeya Lita | |
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| Native name | রোকেয়া লিটা |
| Born | 12 August 1985 Dinajpur, Bangladesh |
| 🏳️ Nationality | Bangladeshi |
| 🎓 Alma mater | University of Dhaka University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh |
| 💼 Occupation | novelist, journalist |
Rokeya Lita (born 12 August 1985) is a Bangladeshi journalist and author, whose first two novels were very controversial.
Education and early life[edit]
Lita was born on 12 August 1985, in Dinajpur, north-western Bangladesh, the youngest of four daughters.[citation needed] Her childhood was spent between Dinajpur and Dhaka city, where her father, a government employee, was transferred for some years. She obtained her honors and master's degrees from the University of Dhaka,[1] and a second master's degree from the University of Liberal Arts, Bangladesh.
Career[edit]
Lita began her career as a journalist at the fortnightly magazine Anondo Alo (Impress Telefilm Publications), then worked in Tarunkontho by The Daily Ittefak, banglanews24.com, Independent Television and the Bangladesh Sanglap project of BBC.[1] She writes columns regularly in different English and Bengali newspapers.
Lita's first novel, Shomokameeta (Homosexuality) (2015), was very controversial in predominantly Muslim Bangladesh,[1][2] and she received threats from people of different groups. Her second novel, Dumurer Phul (The Unseen Object) (2016), depicts the socio-political lives of indigenous people of different groups of the Chittagong Hill Tracts,[3] and revealed some unknown facts regarding traditional indigenous laws, their flaws and impacts on the indigenous women.[4][5] As a result, threats of rape were made against her.[6][7][8] She released her third novel, Purush (Men)[9][10][11] at the Ekushe Book Fair in 2017, and is working on a fourth on the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971.[citation needed]
Selected publications[edit]
- Ḍumurera phula or Unseen Object (2016, Samaẏa Prakāśana)[12]
- Samakāmitā = Shomokameeta (2015, Āgāmī Prakāśanī: ISBN 9789840417827 Search this book on
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References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "সমকামিতা নিয়ে লিখেছি বলে, অনেকে পতিতা বলে গালি দিয়েছে। | Kaler Kantho". www.kalerkantho.com. Retrieved 2017-02-20.
- ↑ নানা বিতর্কে রোকেয়া লিটা এর 'সমকামিতা'. Muhurter Khobor (in Bengali). 8 February 2015. Retrieved 25 April 2016.
- ↑ Shehab, Ahmed (11 March 2016). "Real story behind 'Dumurer Phul'". The Independent. Dhaka. Retrieved 25 April 2016.
- ↑ Rumi, G.M. (1 February 2016). ডুমুরের ফুলে বাস্তবতা তুলে এনেছি. Manab Zamin (in Bengali). Retrieved 25 April 2016.
- ↑ Islam, Maher (17 March 2018). "Tears of Hill: Violence against Tribal Women in CHT". Parbatta News. Retrieved 28 November 2018.
- ↑ নিরাপত্তা চেয়ে জিডি করলেন লেখিকা রোকেয়া লিটা. Amader Shomoy (in Bengali). 10 February 2016. Retrieved 25 April 2016.
- ↑ "পার্বত্য জনপদ নিয়ে বই লিখে হুমকিতে লেখিকা". BBC বাংলা. Retrieved 2017-02-09.
- ↑ Narendra. "Progressive woman journalist received rape threats by tribals for her novel". Retrieved 2017-02-09.
- ↑ Kantho, Kaler. "'প্রেমিক চরিত্রের দ্বিমুখিতা,অসঙ্গতি তুলে ধরেছি' | কালের কণ্ঠ". Kalerkantho (in Bengali). Retrieved 2017-02-09.
- ↑ "নারীর আত্মহত্যাপ্রবণ ইচ্ছেগুলোকে দমন করবে যে বইটি | banglatribune.com". Bangla Tribune. Retrieved 2017-02-28.
- ↑ "প্রবাসে বসে 'পুরুষ' উপন্যাসটি লেখার অভিজ্ঞতা". bangla.bdnews24.com. Retrieved 2017-02-28.
- ↑ "Catalogue record for Dumurera phula". Worldcat. Retrieved 23 November 2018.
- ↑ "Catalogue record for Samakāmitā = Shomokameeta". Worldcat. Retrieved 23 November 2018.
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