birth_date: 1936-02-12 00:00:00
avg_rating: 4.2
name: Shawkat Ali
about: Shawkat Ali (Bangla: শওকত আলী) is a major contemporary writer of Bangladesh, and has been contributing to Bangla fiction for the last four decades. Both in novels and short stories he has established his place with much glory. His fiction touches every sphere of life of mass people of Bangladesh. He prefers to deal with history, specially the liberation war in 1971. He was honored with Bangla Academy Award in 1968 and Ekushey Padak in 1990.
death_date: 2018-01-25 00:00:00