Taslima Nasreen, an award-winning writer, physician, secular humanist and human rights activist, is known for her powerful writings on women oppression and unflinching criticism of religion, despite forced exile and multiple fatwas calling for her death. In India, Bangladesh and abroad, Nasreen’s fiction, nonfiction, poetry and memoir have topped the best-seller’s list.

Taslima Nasreen was born in Bangladesh. She started writing when she was 13. Her writings won the hearts of people across the border and she landed with the prestigious literary award Ananda from India in 1992. Taslima won The Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought from the European Parliament in 1994. She received the Kurt Tucholsky Award from Swedish PEN, the Simone de Beauvoir Award and Human Rights Award from Government of France, Le Prix de l' Edit de Nantes from the city of Nantes, France, Academy prize from the Royal Academy of arts, science and literature from Belgium. She is a Humanist Laureate in The International Academy for Humanism,USA. She won Distinguished Humanist Award from International Humanist and Ethical Union, Free-thought Heroine award from Freedom From Religion foundation, USA., IBKA award, Germany,and Feminist Press Award, USA . She got the UNESCO Madanjeet Singh prize for Promotion of the Tolerance and Non-violence in 2005. She received the Medal of honor of Lyon. She got honorary citizenship from Paris, Nantes, Lyon, Metz, Thionville, Esch etc. Taslima was awarded the Condorcet-Aron Prize at the “Parliament of the French Community of Belgium” in Brussels and Ananda literary award again in 2000.

Bestowed with honorary doctorates from Gent University and UCL in Belgium, and American University of Paris and Paris Diderot University in France, she has addressed gatherings in major venues of the world like the European Parliament, National Assembly of France, Universities of Sorbonne, Oxford, Harvard, Yale, etc. She got fellowships as a research scholar at Harvard and New York Universities. She was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow in the USA in 2009.

Taslima has written 40 books in Bengali, which includes poetry, essays, novels and autobiography series. Her works have been translated in thirty different languages. Some of her books are banned in Bangladesh. Because of her thoughts and ideas she has been banned, blacklisted and banished from Bengal, both from Bangladesh and West Bengal part of India. She has been prevented by the authorities from returning to her country since 1994, and to West Bengal since 2007.

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chigau (違う) says

June 16, 2014 at 9:30 am

You are making a difference!

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Sunil Tiwari says

June 16, 2014 at 9:34 am

Dear Tasleemaji,

I will appreciate Your Works towards Women Empowerment nd Their Rights of Freedom, I am Hindu & we believe in Equality, but some people Missused This and Used for their Benifits, Every Hindu Holy books Tell Respect women and Prakrati or Nature (Rep Women) , I am very Happy to see you as A strong women, Brave Heart, Kind Heart, awesome full of love ,God bless U ,I prays to god for your Health,More Will power, more Strength,Strong, Brave Heart god bless you Take care

SUNIL T

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F [i'm not here, i'm gone] says

June 17, 2014 at 4:29 am

Excellent, Rachel Copp, thank you for sharing.

Thank you too Taslima, for posting this. You are inspiring, thoughtful, and informative.

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Trebuchet says

June 17, 2014 at 11:58 pm

Congratulations on being an inspiration! But please charge your battery.

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StevoR : Free West Papua, free Tibet, let the Chagossians return! says

June 21, 2014 at 9:15 pm

Congratulations. Well done and great to see.

Yes Taslima you do make a positive difference in this world.

Never forget that. Again, well done.

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