Shahnaz Munni

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Shahnaz Munni ( Bengali শাহনাজ মুন্নী , born on February 8 1969 in Dhaka ) is a journalist and author from Bangladesh , on Bengali writes - a language that is spoken by more than 200 million people.

life and work

Shahnaz Munni studied social sciences at Dhaka University . She wrote poems , stories, youth narratives and essays . She has published more than twenty books. She made her literary debut in 1997 with a short story book called Jiner Konnaya (The Spirit's Daughter) . In Germany, her poems became known primarily as part of the Goethe Institute's translation project Versschmuggel . In this context, your poems were translated into German by Hendrik Jackson at a workshop about the detour of interlinear translations. Another participant in the workshop was the poet Sajjad Sharif from Bangladesh .

Shahnaz Munni initially worked as a television journalist for Ekushey Television . In 2003 she moved to ATN Bangla , where she worked as a senior reporter. Since January 2016 she has been working as senior news editor for News 24 , a broadcaster of the Bashundhara Group .

Shahnaz Munni is known for her commitment to health issues, women and children. In September 2006 she took part in a UNICEF poetry festival in Dhaka, where leading poets of the country were invited to recite poems they had written. The festival was dedicated to supporting children's rights . In 2009 she won second prize at the Meena Media Awards for a report about glue-sniffing children . In 2011 she was one of the winners of the Family Planning Media Awards . In 2013, she served as an ambassador for the Maternal and Child Health Integrated Program (MCHIP) and visited various local initiatives for safe motherhood and newborn care. In 2015 Shahnaz Munni was a juror for the BRAC Media Award of the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee on the subject of tuberculosis.

Web links

Commons : Shahnaz Munni  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Speaker. (No longer available online.) Dhaka Tribune, archived from the original on November 10, 2016 ; accessed on November 11, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / dlf.dhakatribune.com
  2. Shahnaz Munni. Goethe-Institut , accessed on November 11, 2016 .
  3. Poets Translating Poets at Goethe-Institut today. The Independent Bangladesh, September 11, 2015, accessed November 11, 2016 .
  4. Shahnaz Munni joins News 24th Daily Sun, January 7, 2016, accessed November 11, 2016 .
  5. September 27, 2006: Poetry festival on rights of the child held in Dhaka. UNICEF , 2006, accessed November 11, 2016 .
  6. ^ Sophie McNamara: Changing children's lives, one story at a time. UNICEF , November 4, 2009, accessed November 11, 2016 .
  7. bdnews24.com scribe awarded. bdnews24, July 11, 2011, accessed on November 11, 2016 (English).
  8. ^ Journalist Shahnaz Munni, Maternal And Newborn Health Ambassador Of MCHIP Visited Mamoni Project. Save the Children , accessed November 11, 2016 .
  9. Media Highlight Shahnaz Munni's Visit to MaMoni Project Sites in Habiganj. (No longer available online.) MCHIP, February 11, 2013, archived from the original on November 10, 2016 ; accessed on November 11, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mchip.net
  10. BRAC Recognizes media efforts to report on TB. Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee , April 16, 2015, accessed November 11, 2016 .