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The 74th birth anniversary of country's one of the most prolific writers and littérateur Rabeya Khatun is today (December 27). She was born in 1935. During the 50's of the 20th century she started her authorial life with a short story 'Proshno.' Later on in the year 1963, her debut novel 'Modhumoti' was published which brought her satisfactory acquaintance to the Bengali readership. In the same decade a good number of her novels came out that established her not only as a representative of the women writing community but as a major fiction writer of the country.

Rabeya Khatun is one of the few writers of Bangladesh who have been honoured with the highest national award Ekushe Padak. She is restless, no sort of laziness can hover over her. Due to her relentless work the number of her books is about to meet a century.