Dhaka: Eleven personalities have been declared recipients for Bangla Academy Shahitya Puroshkar for 2016, reports local news agency.

Director General of Bangla Academy Shamsuzzaman Khan unveiled the names at a press briefing on Thursday at the Bangla Academy auditorium.

The recipients are Altaf Hossain (poetry), Shaheen Akhtar (fiction), Abdul Momen and Dr. Atiur Rahman (jointly for essay), Moniruzzaman (research), Abdus Selim (translation), Tajul Mohammad (literature on Liberation War), Faruk Chowdhury (biography and travelogue), Masum Reza (drama), Sharif Khan (science, technology and environment) and Sujan Barua (juvenile literature).