Dhaka, June 24: A Bangladeshi publishing house today said it had obtained the rights to translate two Harry Potter books and Hillary Clinton's memoir into Bengali. "'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone' will be published in Bengali next month and we will be able to publish 'Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets' next February," Mesbahuddin Ahmed, owner of Ankur Publishers, told a newspaper. He said Hillary Clinton's "Living History" would be available in Bengali in three months. Ahmed could not be reached immediately for comment.
Book vendors said the Bengali translations, which are rare, of the first two Harry Potter books were an "exciting development," while there would be immense interest in Clinton's book since she visited Dhaka along with then-President Bill Clinton in 2000. Bureau Report