DHAKA, July 18, 2023 (BSS) - A four-day '32nd Bangla Book Fair', under the 
initiative of Muktadhara Foundation, ended today at Jamaica 
Performing Arts Center (JPAC) in New York, USA. 

With the slogan 'Bangabandhu's Instruction in the Globalization of Bangla 
Language, Literature and Art', the book fair drew a huge number of book 
loving people and cultural personalities, said a press release 
received here today. 
 
Some 25 Bangladeshi publishers and 10 institutions of the USA joined the fair 
this year. Muktadhara-JFB Sahitya Purashkar was awarded to poet Asad 
Chowdhury this year during the fair.

The concluding day's programme included performance of dance and songs, poem 
recitation and children's drawing. The day was designated for children.

Apart from the US, writers and readers from Kolkata, Canada, Australia, 
Germany and London joined the fair which turned a get together of Banglees 
living across the country.

Publishing houses Nalanda and Kathaprakash were given Chittaranjan Saha Best 
Publisher Award. 

Muktodhara Foundation General Secretary Biswajit Saha said books worth around 
one lakh dollars were sold in the four-day fair. Visitors have requested to 
extend the timeframe of the fair, he said, adding "we will think of holding 
the fair for seven days next time".