Shuddhashar FreeVoice
শুদ্ধস্বর | |
| File:Shuddhashar Logo Final.png | |
| Formation | 1990 |
|---|---|
| Purpose | Nonprofit, digital magazine, publishing house |
| Headquarters | Skien, Norway |
| Website | shuddhashar |
Shuddhashar (Bengali: শুদ্ধস্বর, English: FreeVoice) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1990 in Bangladesh.[1][2] The organization moved to Skien, Norway in 2016 after its offices were attacked by Islamic extremists.[3][4][5]
History
In 1990, Ahmedur Rashid Chowdhury founded Shuddhashar magazine. He established a publishing house, under the same name, in Dhaka in 2004.[6] Shuddhashar won the Shahid Munir Chowdhury Award from the Bangla Academy in 2013.[7] In February 2015, he received a death threat for publishing materials by atheist writers.[8] On October 31, 2015, he was attacked by assailants with machetes.[9][10] He was hospitalized in critical condition.[7] Ansar Al Islam (AQIS Bangladesh) claimed responsibility.[7]
After the attack on his office, Ahmedur Rashid Chowdhury, also known as Tutul, went into exile and was invited to Skien, Norway through the International Cities of Refuge Network (ICORN) program in 2016.[1][2][11] From there, he began publishing Shuddhashar as a digital magazine, with the first digital edition appearing in 2017. In 2016, Tutul shared the PEN Pinter Prize with Margaret Atwood for his work as editor of Shuddhashar.[12][13]
Tutul also won the Jeri Laber International Freedom to Publish Award for his work as editor of Shuddhashar and was shortlisted for the Prix Voltaire award the same year.[5][14][15] Shuddhashar also exhibited books at the 2016 Ekushey Book Fair, although the number of books it printed decreased to four from 26 the prior year.[16][17] Shuddhashar now publishes e-books.[2][4]
Shuddhashar is a nonprofit focused on platforming writers in exile and focusing on free speech, activism, and literature, with recent digital issues of the magazine focusing on LGBTQ+ rights and global education attracting professors and activists to contribute.[4][18][19] Shuddhashar also publishes books and e-books, including *The Camp* by Gunel Movlud.[2][4]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Looking back over the three decades of Shuddhashar". ICORN international cities of refuge network. Archived from the original on 2022-03-06. Retrieved 2022-07-01. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 "Shuddhashar - from publishing house to online magazine and publication". ICORN international cities of refuge network. Archived from the original on 2017-10-11. Retrieved 2022-07-01. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Shuddhashar at 30: An Interview with Tutul". PEN Transmissions. 2020-11-10. Archived from the original on 2021-07-30. Retrieved 2022-07-01. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Chowdhury, Ahmedur Rashid. "Shuddhashar (শুদ্ধস্বর) award winner magazine and publication". শুদ্ধস্বর. Archived from the original on 2022-06-26. Retrieved 2022-07-01. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Who are this year's Prix Voltaire shortlist nominees?". International Publishers Association. Archived from the original on 2022-07-07. Retrieved 2022-07-01. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Ahmedur Rashid Chowdhury / Tutul". International Cities of Refuge Network. Archived from the original on October 18, 2016. Retrieved October 14, 2016. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 "Tutul wins PEN Int'l Writer of Courage award". The Daily Star. October 14, 2016. Retrieved October 14, 2016.
- ↑ Flood, Alison (October 13, 2016). "Margaret Atwood selects Tutul for Pen writer of courage award". The Guardian. Retrieved October 14, 2016.
- ↑ "Secular publisher murdered, three wounded in Bangladesh attacks". Agence France-Presse. October 31, 2015. Retrieved October 14, 2016.
- ↑ "Attackers said they came to kill publisher Tutul: Witness". bdnews24.com. October 31, 2015. Retrieved October 14, 2016.
- ↑ "Ahmedur Rashid Chowdhury / Tutul | ICORN international cities of refuge network". 2016-10-18. Archived from the original on 2016-10-18. Retrieved 2022-07-01.
- ↑ Correspondent, Staff (2016-10-15). "Tutul wins PEN Int'l Writer of Courage award". The Daily Star. Archived from the original on 2022-07-01. Retrieved 2022-07-01. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Bangladeshi Publishing House to Receive International Freedom to Publish Award". 2018-09-14. Archived from the original on 2018-09-14. Retrieved 2022-07-01.
- ↑ Abrams, Dennis (2016-05-19). "US Publishers' Freedom to Publish Honor: Bangladesh's Shuddhashar". Publishing Perspectives. Archived from the original on 2022-07-01. Retrieved 2022-07-01. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Egan, Catherine. "Shelf Awareness for Wednesday, May 18, 2016". www.shelf-awareness.com. Archived from the original on 2020-08-11. Retrieved 2022-07-01. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Bangladeshi publisher Chowdhury shares PEN Pinter Prize with Atwood". The Bookseller. Archived from the original on 2022-07-01. Retrieved 2022-07-01. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Shuddhashar". jmic. 2018-12-09. Archived from the original on 2022-07-07. Retrieved 2022-07-01. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Celebrating 30 years of Shuddashar, born in Bangladesh, revived in (...) - Secularism is a Women's Issue". www.siawi.org. Archived from the original on 2021-07-25. Retrieved 2022-07-01. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Published : a tool to express bafflement, an interview for Shuddhashar". SJ Fowler. Archived from the original on 2021-09-08. Retrieved 2022-07-01. Unknown parameter
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