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Taslima Nasrin

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born

August 25, 1962 in Mymnesingh, Bangladesh

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http://taslimanasrin.com/

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taslimanasreen

genre

Nonfiction, Women & Gender Studies

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Taslima Nasrin (Bengali: তসলিমা নাসরিন) is a Bengali Bangladeshi ex-doctor turned author who has been living in exile since 1994. From a modest literary profile in the late 1980s, she rose to global fame by the end of the 20th century owing to her feminist views and her criticism of Islam in particular and of religion in general.

Since fleeing Bangladesh in 1994 she has lived in many countries, and currently (June 2011) lives in New Delhi. She works to build support for secular humanism, freedom of thought, equality for women, and human rights by publishing, lecturing, and campaigning. Her name, Taslima Nasrin, is also spelled Taslima Nasreen. She is popularly referred to as "Taslima," her first name, rather than "Nasrin."

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Books by Taslima Nasrin

Average rating: 3.36 · 601 ratings · 68 reviews · 13 distinct works

	Lajja: Shame 3.26 avg rating — 486 ratings — published 1993 — 12 editions	My rating:
	Meyebela: My Bengali Girlhood by Taslima Nasrin, Gopa Majumdar (Translator) 3.38 avg rating — 53 ratings — published 1998	My rating:
	The Game in Reverse: Poems by Taslima Nasrin, Carolyne Wright (Translator) 3.96 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 1995	My rating:
	Revenge by Taslima Nasrin, Honor Moore (Translation) 3.82 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Shodh 3.29 avg rating — 14 ratings	My rating:
	All About Women 4.00 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2005	My rating:
	Love Poems of Taslima Nasreen 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2004	My rating:
	Utal Hawa 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2003 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Wild Wind 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2006	My rating:
	Das Mädchen, das ich war. Die Autobiographie einer Kindheit. ( Sachbuch). by Taslima Nasrin, Taslīma Nasrīn 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2000	My rating:

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Quotes by Taslima Nasrin

“It is said that peace is the basic tenet of all religion. Yet it is in the name of religion that there has been so much disturbance, bloodshed and persecution. It is indeed a pity that even at the close of the twentieth century we've had to witness such atrocities because of religion. Flying the flag of religion has always proved the easiest way to crush to nothingness human beings as well as the spirit of humanity.”
― Taslima Nasrin, Lajja: Shame

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