Campus Report :
Metropolitan University, Sylhet has recently arranged a programme to pay tributes to Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Vice Chancellor of the uUniversity, Prof Dr Md. Saleh Uddin presided over the programme.
He said that Garcia Marquez put up the humane aspects in his entire works, and it was his extra-ordinary style of writing that made him acclaimed and prominent worldwide.
Md. Abdul Aziz, Professor Emeritus, discussed many aspects of life he found in Garcia Marquez who had to experience many hurdles in life to continue his writing and to end up as an iconic figure of world literature, he mentioned.
Prof Dr Suresh Ranjan Basak, a Garcia Marquez scholar and the Dean of School of Humanities and Social Science of MU, said that Marquez has been translated into English from Spanish by some renowned translators like Edith Grossman.
He had profound understanding of human life, and for this quality he could easily go beyond the borders of Columbia and Latin America and was accepted as a voice of the oppressed people all over the world.
Marquez won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982, and he is one of the influential writers of the century.
Among other distinguished guests, Poet Subhendu Imam, Dr Mostak Ahmed Din, and Dr Zafir Setu gave their speeches in memory of Garcia Marquez in the programme. They commented that his demise is a great loss for the contemporary world literature.
Prof Shib Prasad Sen, Prof Khandker Mahmudur Rahman, Prof Taher Billal Khalifa, Barrister Md. Arash Ali, Chowdhury M Mukammel Wahid, Rama Islam, Lukman Ahmed Chowdhury, distinguished faculty members, officials, and students of the university were also present in the programme.
The session was conducted by Anupam Kamal Sen, Lecturer, Department of English.
