Bio
Real Name | Taslima Nasrin |
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Profession | Author, Physician |
Nationality | Bangladeshi, Swedish, Indian |
Famous for | Author, Secular Humanist, Feminist, Physcian |
Age & Info
Date of Birth | 25 August 1962 |
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Age (2023) | 61 |
Eye Color | Black |
Hair Color | Black |
Zodiac & More
Famous for | Author, Secular Humanist, Feminist, Physician |
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Zodiac sign | Virgo |
Religion | Atheist |
Hometown | Mymensingh |
Interesting Facts
Birthplace | Mymensingh Medical College, Dhaka, Bangladesh |
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University | Mymensingh, East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) |
Food Habit | Non-Vegetarian |
Hobbies | Watching films ( According to Taslima, she has a good collection of about 2,500 films) and Watching theatre. |
Movements | • Movements that Talisma supported are concerns related to Eugenics • Women's Equality • Human Rights •Freedom of Speech • Atheist •Scientism •Tolerance |
Member | • Reporters Without Borders (RWB) (an international non-profit and non-governmental organization) • Member of the Emeritus Board |
Marital Status | Divorced |
Favourite Things
Food | Fish, ‘muri’ (puffed rice) and ‘mishti’ (sweets) |
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Game | Chess & cricket |
Cricketer | Shakib Al Hasan |
Poet | Rabindranath Tagore |
Singer | Britney Spears & Michael Jackson |
Destination | United States, Coxbazar (Bangladesh), and India. |
Perfume | JAR Bolt of Lightning |
Color | Black, White, Red |
Author | Humayun Ahmed |
Painter | Zainul Abedin |
Book | Da Vinci Code |
Taslima Nasrin (also Taslima Nasreen, born 25 August 1962) is a Bangladeshi-Swedish writer, physician, feminist, self proclaimed secular humanist and activist. She is known for her support of eugenics, writing on women’s oppression and criticism of religion, despite forced exile. Some of her books are banned in Bangladesh. She has been blacklisted and banished from the Bengal region (both from Bangladesh and West Bengal).
Nasrin was born to Dr. Rajab Ali and Edul Ara in Mymensingh. Her father was a physician, and a professor of Medical Jurisprudence in Mymensingh Medical College, also at Sir Salimullah Medical College, Dhaka and Dhaka Medical College. Nasrin studied medicine and became a physician. She gained global attention by the beginning of 1990s owing to her essays and novels with feminist views and criticism of what she characterizes as all “misogynistic” religions.
Nasrin has been living in exile since 1994. After living more than a decade in Europe and the United States, she moved to India in 2004, but was banished from the country in 2008, although she has been staying in Kolkata, India on a resident permit long-term, multiple-entry or ‘X’ visa since 2004.
Nasrin advocates freedom of thought and human rights by publishing, lecturing, and campaigning. She has been unable to return either to her home in Bangladesh or to her adopted home of West Bengal, India. She now lives in New Delhi, India.
Early career
After high school in 1976 (SSC) and higher secondary studies in college (HSC) in 1978, she studied medicine at the Mymensingh Medical College, an affiliated medical college of the University of Dhaka and graduated in 1984 with an MBBS degree. In college, she wrote and edited a poetry journal called Shenjuti.
After graduation, she worked at a family planning clinic in Mymensingh, then practiced at the genecology department of Mitford hospital and at the anesthesia department of Dhaka Medical College hospital. While she studied and practiced medicine, she saw girls who had been raped; she also heard women cry out in despair in the delivery room if their baby was a girl. She was born into a Muslim family; however, she became an atheist over time. In the course of writing she took a feminist approach.
Literary career
Early in her literary career, Nasrin wrote mainly poetry, and published half a dozen collections of poetry between 1982 and 1993, often with female oppression as a theme, and often containing very graphic language. She started publishing prose in the late 1980s, and produced three collections of essays and four novels before the publication of her documentary novel Lajja (Bengali: লজ্জা Lôjja), or Shame, in which a Hindu family was being attacked by Muslim fanatics and decided to leave the country. Nasrin suffered a number of physical and other attacks for her critical scrutiny of Islam and her demand for women’s equality.
Many of her opposers took to the streets demanding her execution by hanging. In October 1993, a radical fundamentalist group called the Council of Islamic Soldiers offered a bounty for her death.
In May 1994 she was interviewed by the Kolkata edition of The Statesman, which quoted her as calling for a revision of the Quran; she claims she only called for abolition of the Sharia, the Islamic religious law.
In August 1994 she was brought up on “charges of making inflammatory statements,” and faced criticism from Islamic fundamentalists. A few hundred thousand demonstrators called her “an apostate appointed by imperial forces to vilify Islam”; a member of a “militant faction threatened to set loose thousands of poisonous snakes in the capital unless she was executed.” After spending two months in hiding, at the end of 1994 she escaped to Sweden, consequently ceasing her medical practice and becoming a full-time writer and activist.
Life in exile
Taslima while under house arrest in New Delhi
After fleeing Bangladesh in 1994, Nasrin spent the next ten years in exile in Sweden, Germany, France and the US.
She returned to the East and relocated to Kolkata, India, in 2004, where she lived until 2007. After she was physically attacked by opposers in Hyderabad, she was forced to live under house arrest in Kolkata, and finally, she was made to leave West Bengal on 22 November 2007. She was then forced to live under house arrest in Delhi for 3 months. She had no other alternative but to leave India in 2008. She was not allowed to live in India for a while, but ultimately Nasrin, determined to live in the subcontinent, moved to India from the US.
Muslims in Kolkata demonstrate, demanding the deportation of the Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen
Leaving Bangladesh towards the end of 1994, Nasrin lived in exile in Western Europe and North America for ten years. Her Bangladeshi passport had been revoked; she was granted citizenship by the Swedish government and took refuge in Germany.
She allegedly had to wait for six years (1994–1999) to get a visa to visit India. In 1998 she wrote Meyebela, My Bengali Girlhood, her biographical account from birth to adolescence. She never got a Bangladeshi passport to return to the country when her mother, and later her father, were on their death beds.
In March 2000, she visited Mumbai to promote a translation of her novel Shodh (translated by Marathi author Ashok Shahane, the book was called Phitam Phat). Secular “atheist” groups seized upon the occasion to celebrate freedom of expression, while “radical fundamentalist groups…threatened to burn her alive.”
2004–2007, life in Kolkata
In 2004, she was granted a renewable temporary residential permit by India and moved to Kolkata in the state of West Bengal, which shares a common heritage and language with Bangladesh; in an interview in 2007, after she had been forced to flee, she called Kolkata her home. The government of India extended her visa to stay in the country on a periodic basis, though it refused to grant her Indian citizenship. While living in Kolkata, Nasrin regularly contributed to Indian newspapers and magazines, including Anandabazar Patrika and Desh, and, for some time, wrote a weekly column in the Bengali version of The Statesman.
Again her criticism of Islam was met with opposition from religious fundamentalists: in June 2006, Syed Noorur Rehaman Barkati, the imam of Kolkata’s Tipu Sultan Mosque, admitted offering money to anyone who “blackened [that is, publicly humiliated] Ms Nasreen’s face.” Even abroad she caused controversy: in 2005, she tried to read an anti-war poem titled “America” to a large Bengali crowd at the North American Bengali Conference at Madison Square Garden in New York City, and was booed off the stage.
Back in India, the “All India Muslim Personal Board (Jadeed)” offered 500,000 rupees for her beheading in March 2007. The group’s president, Tauqeer Raza Khan, said the only way the bounty would be lifted was if Nasrin “apologises, burns her books and leaves.”
In 2007, elected and serving members of All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen made threats against Tasleema Nasreen, pledging that the fatwa against her and Salman Rushdie were to be abided by. While she was in Hyderabad releasing Telugu translations of her work, she was attacked by party members led by 3 MLAs- Mohammed Muqtada Khan, Mohammed Moazzam Khan and Syed Ahmed Pasha Quadri – were then charged and arrested.
Expulsion from Kolkata
Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasrin when escorted out of the press club by the Indian Police after she was manhandled by angry Muslim protesters in Hyderabad, India, Thursday, Aug 9, 2007
On 9 August 2007, Nasrin was in Hyderabad to present the Telugu translation of one of her novels, Shodh, when she was allegedly attacked by a mob, led by legislators from the Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen, an Indian political party. A week later, on 17 August, Muslim leaders in Kolkata revived an old fatwa against her, urging her to leave the country and offering an unlimited amount of money to anybody who would kill her.
On 21 November, Kolkata witnessed a protest against Nasrin. A protest organized by the “All India Minority Forum” caused chaos in the city and forced the army’s deployment to restore order. After the riots, Nasrin was forced to move from Kolkata, her “adopted city,” to Jaipur, and to New Delhi the following day.
The government of India kept Nasrin in an undisclosed location in New Delhi, effectively under house arrest, for more than seven months. In January 2008, she was selected for the Simone de Beauvoir award in recognition of her writing on women’s rights, but declined to go to Paris to receive the award. She explained that “I don’t want to leave India at this stage and would rather fight for my freedom here,” but she had to be hospitalized for three days with several complaints.
The house arrest quickly acquired an international dimension: in a letter to London-based human rights organization Amnesty International, India’s former foreign secretary Muchkund Dubey urged the organization to pressure the Indian government so Nasrin could safely return to Kolkata.
From New Delhi, Nasrin commented: “I’m writing a lot, but not about Islam, It’s not my subject now. This is about politics.
In the last three months I have been put under severe pressure to leave [West] Bengal by the police.” In an email interview from the undisclosed safehouse, Nasrin talked about the stress caused by “this unendurable loneliness, this uncertainty and this deathly silence.” She cancelled the publication of the sixth part of her autobiography Nei Kichu Nei (“No Entity”), and—under pressure—deleted some passages from Dwikhandito, the controversial book that was the boost for the riots in Kolkata. She was forced to leave India on 19 March 2008.
Nasrin moved to Sweden in 2008 and later worked as a research scholar at New York University. Since, as she claims, “her soul lived in India,” she also pledged her body to the country, by awarding it for posthumous medical use to Gana Darpan, a Kolkata-based NGO, in 2005. She eventually returned to India, but was forced to stay in New Delhi as the West Bengal government refused to permit her entry. Currently her visa received a one-year extension in 2016 and Nasreen is also seeking permanent residency in India but no decision has been taken on it by the Home Ministry
Muslims burn an effigy of author Taslima Nasrin during protests in Kolkata in 2008
In 2015 Nasrin was supposedly threatened with death by Al Qaeda-linked extremists, and so the Center for Inquiry assisted her in traveling to the United States, where she now lives. The Center for Inquiry (CFI) that helped evacuate her to the U.S. on 27 May gave an official statement in June 2015 stating that her safety “is only temporary if she cannot remain in the U.S., however, which is why CFI has established an emergency fund to help with food, housing, and the means for her to be safely settled”.
Literary works
Nasrin started writing poetry when she was thirteen. While still at college in Mymensingh, she published and edited a literary magazine, SeNjuti (“Light in the dark”), from 1978 to 1983. She published her first collection of poems in 1986. Her second collection, Nirbashito Bahire Ontore (“Banished within and without”) was published in 1989. She succeeded in attracting a wider readership when she started writing columns in late 1980s, and, in the early 1990s, she began writing novels, for which she has won significant acclaim.
In all, she has written more than thirty books of poetry, essays, novels, short stories, and memoirs, and her books have been translated into 20 different languages.
Her own experience of sexual abuse during adolescence and her work as a gynaecologist influenced her a great deal in writing about the alleged treatment of women in Islam and against religion in general.[69] Her writing is characterised by two connected elements: her struggle with the Islam of her native culture, and her feminist philosophy.
She cites Virginia Woolf and Simone de Beauvoir as influences, and, when pushed to think of one closer to home, Begum Rokeya, who lived during the time of undivided Bengal. Her later poetry also evidences a connection to place, to Bangladesh and India.
Columns and essays
In 1989 Nasrin began to contribute to the weekly political magazine Khaborer Kagoj, edited by Nayeemul Islam Khan, and published from Dhaka. Her feminist views and anti-religion remarks articles succeeded in drawing broad attention, and she shocked the religious and conservative society of Bangladesh by her radical comments and suggestions.
Later she collected these columns in a volume titled Nirbachita Column, which in 1992 won her first Ananda Purashkar award, a prestigious award for Bengali writers. During her life in Kolkata, she contributed a weekly essay to the Bengali version of The Statesman, called Dainik Statesman.
Taslima has always advocated for an Indian Uniform civil code, and said that criticism of Islam is the only way to establish secularism in Islamic countries. [ Taslima said that Triple talaq is despicable and the All India Muslim Personal Law Board should be abolished. Taslima used to write articles for online media venture The Print in India.
Novels
In 1992 Nasrin produced two novellas which failed to draw attention.
Her breakthrough novel Lajja (Shame) was published in 1993, and attracted wide attention because of its controversial subject matter. It contained the struggle of a patriotic Bangladeshi Hindu family in a Muslim environment. Initially written as a thin documentary, Lajja grew into a full-length novel as the author later revised it substantially. In six months’ time, it sold 50,000 copies in Bangladesh before being banned by the government that same year.
Her other famous novel is French Lover, published in year 2002.
Taslima’s new ‘Ekala Chalo’ book in Hindi published on 27 January 2021
Taslima’s new book ‘Ekala Book’ was released in Hindi, on 25 January 2021. She announced this news on her social media account.
Autobiography
Amar Meyebela (My Girlhood, 2002), the first volume of her memoir, was banned by the Bangladeshi government in 1999 for “reckless comments” against Islam and the prophet Mohammad. Utal Hawa (Wild Wind), the second part of her memoir, was banned by the Bangladesh government in 2002. Ka (Speak up), the third part of her memoir, was banned by the Bangladeshi High Court in 2003.
Under pressure from Indian Muslim activists, the book, which was published in West Bengal as Dwikhandita, was banned there also; some 3,000 copies were seized immediately. The decision to ban the book was criticized by “a host of authors” in West Bengal, but the ban was not lifted until 2005. Sei Sob Ondhokar (Those Dark Days), the fourth part of her memoir, was banned by the Bangladesh government in 2004.
To date, a total of seven parts of her autobiography have been published. “Ami bhalo nei tumi bhalo theko priyo desh”, ” Nei kichu nei” and “Nirbashito”. All seven parts have been published by Peoples’s Book Society, Kolkata. She received her second Ananda Purashkar award in 2000, for her memoir Amar Meyebela (My Girlhood, published in English in 2002).
Nasrin's life and works in adaptation
Nasrin’s life is the subject of a number of plays and songs, in the east and the west. The Swedish singer Magoria sang “Goddess in you, Taslima,” and the French band Zebda composed “Don’t worry, Taslima” as an homage.
Her work has been adapted for TV and even turned into music. Jhumur was a 2006 TV serial based on a story written especially for the show. Bengali singers like Fakir Alamgir, Samina Nabi, Rakhi Sen sang her songs. Steve Lacy, the jazz soprano saxophonist, met Nasrin in 1996 and collaborated with her on an adaptation of her poetry to music.
The result, a “controversial” and “compelling” work called The Cry, was performed in Europe and North America. Initially, Nasrin was to recite during the performance, but these recitations were dropped after the 1996 Berlin world premiere because of security concerns.
Writers and intellectuals for and against Nasrin
Nasrin has been criticized by writers and intellectuals in both Bangladesh and West Bengal for targeted scandalisation. Because of “obnoxious, false and ludicrous” comments in Ka, “written with the ‘intention to injure the reputation of the plaintiff'”, Syed Shamsul Haq, Bangladeshi poet and novelist, filed a defamation suit against Nasrin in 2003.
In the book, she mentions that Haq confessed to her that he had a relationship with his sister-in-law. A West Bengali poet, Hasmat Jalal, did the same; his suit led to the High Court banning the book, which was published in India as Dwikhondito. Nearly 4 million dollars were claimed in defamation lawsuits against her after the book was published.
The West Bengal Government, supposedly pressured by 24 literary intellectuals, decided to ban Nasreen’s book in 2003. Nasrin replied that she wrote about known people without their permission when some commented that she did it to earn fame. She defended herself against all the allegations. She wrote why she dared to reveal her sexual activities, saying that she wrote her life’s story, not others’. Yet Nasrin enjoyed support from Bengali writers and intellectuals like Annada Shankar Ray, Sibnarayan Ray and Amlan Dutta.
Taslima at Delhi protest in 2012 (Nirbhaya case)
In 2015 Nasrin was supposedly threatened with death by Al Qaeda-linked extremists, and so the Center for Inquiry assisted her in traveling to the United States, where she now lives. The Center for Inquiry (CFI) that helped evacuate her to the U.S. on 27 May gave an official statement in June 2015 stating that her safety “is only temporary if she cannot remain in the U.S., however, which is why CFI has established an emergency fund to help with food, housing, and the means for her to be safely settled”.
Recently she was supported and defended by personalities such as author Mahasweta Devi, theatre director Bibhas Chakrabarty, poet Joy Goswami, artist Prakash Karmakar and Paritosh Sen. In India, noted writers Arundhati Roy, Girish Karnad, and others defended her when she was under house arrest in Delhi in 2007, and co-signed a statement calling on the Indian government to grant her permanent residency in India or, should she ask for it, citizenship. In Bangladesh writer and philosopher Kabir Chowdhury also supported her strongly.
Political views
When Sri Lanka banned the burka on 2019, Nasrin took to Twitter to show her support for the decision. She termed burqa as a ‘mobile prison’. Taslima has echoed the views of far-right Hindu nationalists, eugenicists on Twitter, stating that those with “bad genes” (for which she lists diabetes, hypertension, and cancer) should not reproduce.
Controversy
Taslima’s tweet on Cricketer Moeen Ali in 2021
On 14th April 2021, Taslima posted on her Twitter account and created controversy all around the world while targeting and commenting on the cricketer Moeen Ali. She wrote in her Twitter comment that if Moeen Ali were not stuck with cricket, he would have gone to Syria to join ISIS.
Taslima’s tweet on Cricketer Moeen Ali in 2021
Taslima and Moeen Ali
Later on, Moeen’s England teammates re-tweeted Taslima’s tweet and in one of the comments, the cricketer Archer took the side of Moeen and said, “Are you okay? I don’t think you’re okay. Sarcastic? No one is laughing, not even yourself, the least you can do is delete the tweet.”
Lancashire and England fast bowler Saqib Mahmood wrote, “Can’t believe this. Disgusting tweet. Disgusting individual.”
In April 2021, Nasrin drew controversy on Twitter when she suggested that English cricketer Moeen Ali “would have gone to Syria to join ISIS” in response to reports of Ali’s request to not wear sponsors of alcohol companies while playing in the Indian Premier League. His teammate Jofra Archer, Saqib Mahmood, Sam Billings, Ben Duckett protest against it. Indian activist and secretary of All India Progressive Women’s Association, Kavita Krishnan strongly denounced Nasrin for the remark by tweeting, “Shame on you Taslima Nasrin. You will be remembered as a garden variety bigot not a writer, certainly not a rationalist or feminist.”
In 2014, Nasrin’s book ‘Nirbasan’ was canceled at the Fair and it happened after a year of its launch. However, Nasrin feels nothing much had changed in West Bengal at that time and she had no hope of returning to Kolkata. She stated,
The situation in West Bengal is exactly like Bangladesh. Bengal government has also made me a persona non grata as they are not allowing me to enter, banning my books besides the TV drama series scripted by me. They are not allowing me to participate in the ongoing Kolkata Book Fair. It happened during the CPM regime and I thought the situation would change when Mamata Banerjee comes to power but that did not happen.”
I am so apprehensive about it that I tweeted that those who want to buy it, buy early. They are banning my books or release of my books which is the real death of a writer. They have done it in 2012 and can again do it. If it continues like this, then Bengal will be like another Bangladesh or Pakistan where there is almost no freedom of expression for those who have different opinions.”
In 2014, Nasrin’s book ‘Nirbasan’ was canceled at the Fair and it happened after a year of its launch. However, Nasrin feels nothing much had changed in West Bengal at that time and she had no hope of returning to Kolkata. She stated,
It will be good if Aam Aadmi Party can bring changes but I think there should be an Aam Aurat Party also to fight against issues like rape, domestic violence, hatred against women and men can also be a part of it.”
In 2015, Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasrin lived in exile in India and said in a newspaper interview that she would not be silenced by fundamentalists and she further stated that she would continue to fight fundamentalists and evil forces until her death. She said,
Taslima while speaking to the news reporters in 2015
Fundamentalists are after me but the West Bengal government did not support me either. They did all this to woo Muslim voters. This vote bank politics is not good for a society or country. There should be healthy democracy.”
Taslima Nasrin celebrates completing 25 years of living in exile abroad in 2019
On 9th July 2019, the ‘French Lover’ author Taslima Nasrin took to Twitter to share her excitement. She wrote “25 years. Yes, 25 years. Today. Completed 25 years of my exile life.”
Taslima Nasrin’s tweet on Shushant Singh Rajput’s suicide case in 2020
On Shushant Singh Rajput’s death in 2020, Nasrin claimed that nepotism exists in everyone’s blood and stated that nepotism was not the reason behind the suicide and she wrote on her Twitter account,
I don’t think nepotism was the reason for Sushant’s suicide. He was a talented actor, & signed many movies. He should not have discontinued prescribed medicines for his clinical depression.”
Taslima’s twitter post when she caught COVID-19 during pandemic outburst
In May 2021, Taslima caught COVID-19 disease and posted it on her social media account. She said,
Misfortune had always found its way with me. If I start listing everything that has happened with me, all those things which weren’t supposed to, then the list would be so long no one would find an end to it! For now, let Covid-19 be the only tragedy.”
Awards
- Ananda Award or Ananda Puraskar from West Bengal, India in 1992 and 2000 for “Nirbachita Kolam” and “Amar Meyebela”
- Sakharov Prize for freedom of thoughts from European Parliament, in 1994
- Simone de Beauvoir Prize in 2008|
- Human Rights Award from the Government of France,1994
- Edict of Nantes Prize from France, 1994
- Kurt Tucholsky Prize, Swedish PEN, Sweden, 1994
- Feminist of the Year from Feminist Majority Foundation, US, 1994
- Scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service, Germany, 1995
- Distinguished Humanist Award from International Humanist and Ethical Union, Great Britain, 1996
- Erwin Fischer Award, International League of non-religious and atheists (IBKA), Germany, 2002
- Freethought Heroine Award, Freedom From Religion Foundation, US, 2002
- Fellowship at Carr Centre for Human Rights Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, US, 2003
- UNESCO-Madanjeet Singh Prize for the promotion of tolerance and non-violence, 2004
- Honorary doctorate from American University of Paris, 2005
- Grand Prix International Condorcet-Aron, 2005
- Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, US, 2009
- Feminist Press award, US, 2009
- Honorary doctorate from Universite Catholique de
- Louvain, Belgium, 2011
- Honorary citizenship from Esch, Luxembourg, 2011
- Honorary citizenship from Metz, France, 2011
- Honorary citizenship from Thionville, France, 2011
- Honorary doctorate from Paris Diderot University,
- Paris, France, 2011
- Universal Citizenship Passport. From Paris, France, 2013
- Academy Award from the Royal Academy of Arts, Science and Literature, Belgium, 2013
- Honorary Associate of the National Secular Society
Bibliography
Poetry
- Shikore Bipul Khudha (Hunger in the Roots), 1982
- Nirbashito Bahire Ontore (Banished Without and Within), 1989
- Amar Kichu Jay Ashe Ne (I Couldn’t Care Less), 1990
- Atole Ontorin (Captive in the Abyss), 1991
- Balikar Gollachut (Game of the Girls), 1992
- Behula Eka Bhashiyechilo Bhela (Behula Floated the Raft Alone), 1993
- Ay Kosto Jhepe, Jibon Debo Mepe (Pain Come Roaring Down, I’ll Measure Out My Life for You), 1994
- Nirbashito Narir Kobita (Poems From Exile), 1996
- Jolpodyo (Waterlilies), 2000
- Khali Khali Lage (Feeling Empty), 2004
- Kicchukhan Thako (Stay for a While), 2005
- Bhalobaso? Cchai baso (It’s your love! or a heap of trash!), 2007
- Bondini (Prisoner), 2008
- Golpo (stories),2018
Essay collections
- Shikore Bipul Khudha (Hunger in the Roots), 1982
- Nirbashito Bahire Ontore (Banished Without and Within), 1989
- Amar Kichu Jay Ashe Ne (I Couldn’t Care Less), 1990
- Atole Ontorin (Captive in the Abyss), 1991
- Balikar Gollachut (Game of the Girls), 1992
- Behula Eka Bhashiyechilo Bhela (Behula Floated the Raft Alone), 1993
- Ay Kosto Jhepe, Jibon Debo Mepe (Pain Come Roaring Down, I’ll Measure Out My Life for You), 1994
- Nirbashito Narir Kobita (Poems From Exile), 1996
- Jolpodyo (Waterlilies), 2000
- Khali Khali Lage (Feeling Empty), 2004
- Kicchukhan Thako (Stay for a While), 2005
- Bhalobaso? Cchai baso (It’s your love! or a heap of trash!), 2007
- Bondini (Prisoner), 2008
- Golpo (stories),2018
Her signature and Husbands
Parents & Siblings
Father– Dr. Rajab Ali ( He was a physician, and a professor of Medical Jurisprudence in Mymensingh Medical College and at Sir Salimullah Medical College, Dhaka, Bangladesh)
Mother– Edul Ara
Taslima Nasrin’s Books
She has written many books. Some of the famous books are as follows.
Taslima Nasrin Interviews and other videos
In an interview in 2012, Nasrin said that Islam was not compatible with women’s rights, human rights, secularism, and democracy. She added that the Muslims and all Muslim fundamentalists all around the world hate her. She stated that the Muslim fundamentals did not like that she was fighting for women’s rights all over the world.
In 1994, she met French President Francois Mitterrand and he said he respected her work. Nasrin lived in Paris during her eviction period.