William Faulkner celebrated at JKKNIU

Marking the 119th birth anniversary of famed American writer William Faulkner a literary gathering was held at Jatiya Kabi Kazi Nazrul Islam University (JKKNIU) here on Monday. Ink, a literary circle of the university's English department, organised the  gathering styled “Death in Fiction'.

A discussion on the life and work of Faulkner was held marking the occasion.

Professor Emdadul Haque, Professor Bijoy Bushan Das, Assistant Professors Sheikh Mehdi Hasan and Umme Farhana; Sakhawat Jamil Shaikat of the department took part in the discussion.

Ink's convener Abdullah Al Muktadir, a lecturer of the department delivered the welcome speech.

They also dedicated the celebration to Faulkner.

Modern  literature is not only a mouthpiece for a selected society but  has become a means of articulating  daily problems and their possible solutions, said the speakers.

Paying rich tribute to William Faulkner, they also said that his   challenging writings have made him the best regarded author throughout the world.

American writer William Faulkner was born in New Albany, Mississippi, in 1897. Much of his early work was poetry, but he became famous for his novels set in the American South, frequently in his fabricated Yoknapatawpha County, with works that included The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying and Absalom, Absalom! 

His controversial 1931 novel Sanctuary was turned into two films, 1933's The Story of Temple Drake as well as a later 1961 project. Faulkner was awarded the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature and ultimately won two Pulitzers and two 

National Book Awards as well.

He died on July 6, 1962.