National Professor Anisuzzaman has been nominated for the Saarc Literature Award 2019.

The award will be handed over on May 21 in Bhutan, according to a Bangla Academy press

release.

Prof Anisuzzaman, president of Bangla Academy, is the fourth Bangladeshi to receive the award.

Bangla Academy held a reception in honour of Prof Anisuzzaman. The academy's Director General Habibullah Sirajee presented a wreath to the national professor on the occasion.

Academy Secretary Mohammad Anwar Hossain, Prof Niru Kumar Chakma, Prof Pradip Kumar Rai, Dr Israil Khan, poet Quazi Rosy as well as directors, deputy directors, officials and staff members of Bangla Academy were present at the event.