# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/selina-hossain
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:46:26.596Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/selina-hossain"
name: "Selina Hossain"
slug: "selina-hossain"
description: "Selina Hossain is a Bangladeshi novelist. Her major works include ''Hangor Nodi Grenade'' (1976) and ''Poka Makorer Ghor Boshoti'' (1996). She earned all major national awards – Bangla Academy Literary Award in 1980, Ekushey Padak in 2009 and Independence Day Award in 2018. Her novels and short stories have been translated into English, Russian, French, Japanese, Korean, Finnish and Malay. She served as the chairperson of Bangladesh Shishu Academy from 2014 until 2018. Selina served as the president of the Bangla Academy from 3 February 2022 until her resignation on 17 October 2024."
tagline: "Bengali writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Selina_Hossain_(2)_(cropped).JPG?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1947-06-14"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.13
  momentum:             5.26315789473684
  historical:           10.14193733333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm7684491"
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    title: "سيلينا هوساين"
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    title: "চেলিনা হুছেইন"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "সেলিনা হোসেন"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Selina Hossain"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Selina Hossain"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selina_Hossain"
    title: "Selina Hossain"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Selina Hossain"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "सेलिना हुसेन"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "セリナ・フセイン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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    title: "Selina Hossain"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump