Dilara Hashem

Dilara Hashem (Bengali: দিলারা হাশেম; 25 August 1935 – 19 March 2022) was a Bangladeshi author and novelist.

[3] She had a dual career as an eminent author and international broadcaster.

As a writer, she maintained a steady literary output for four decades, with many volumes of novels, memoirs, short stories, and poetry.

Her 1965 debut novel Ghor Mon Janala (Home, Heart, Window) was a major success.

The book garnered critical and popular praise and became a feature film in Bangladesh (1983).