More Bangladeshi Christian writers needed

(February 02, 2011) Catholic writers in Bangladesh are urging local Christians to contribute more to literature. “Christians are backward when it comes to professional writing and publishing books. There are almost no mainstream Christian writers in Bangladesh,” lamented Khokon Corraya, a Catholic writer and publisher.
Christian families don’t encourage professional writing because they think it’s difficult to earn a living by writing books, he said. “There are few Catholic publications in the country and they also don’t pay writers well. There is a lack of cooperation, encouragement and fewer literary magazines, that restrict the emergence of new Christian writers,” he added on the eve of Bangladesh’s largest book fair.
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina along with Amartya Sen, the Nobel economics laureate from India, opened the month-long fair on Monday at the Bangla Academy in Dhaka