Taslima Nasrin

Taslima Nasrin is, to me, a writer who treats the pen as a genuine risk rather than a pose. Trained as a physician in Mymensingh, she turned to feminism and secular humanism, and paid for it with banned books and exile from her own homeland. The Sakharov and Simone de Beauvoir prizes feel less like decoration than like receipts for that cost. Lajja grabs readers by the collar. Anyone can voice principles from safety, but to keep speaking after being banished is rare. I have nothing but respect for her stubborn, uncomfortable honesty, and I think history will treat it kindly.

Name (English)

Taslima Nasrin

Name (Japanese)

タスリマ・ナスリン

Reading

たすりま・なすりん

Born

August 25, 1962 (age 63)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Tiger

Origin

Mymensingh, Mymensingh District, Bangladesh

Occupation

writer / physician / women's rights activist / poet / novelist

University

Mymensingh Medical College

Awards & achievements

• 2008 Simone de Beauvoir Prize
• 1994 Kurt Tucholsky Prize
• 1994 Sakharov Prize
• 1995 Monismanien Prize
• 2000 Ananda Puraskar
• 2004 UNESCO-Madanjeet Singh Prize
• 2011 honorary doctorate from the University of Paris-VII
• 2014 Ingemar Hedenius Prize

• Official sitehttp://taslimanasrin.com/
• Xhttps://x.com/taslimanasreen
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taslima%20Nasrin
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%BF%E3%82%B9%E3%83%AA%E3%83%9E%E3%83%BB%E3%83%8A%E3%82%B9%E3%83%AA%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q208468

Tags

• Mymensingh District
• writer
• physician
• women's rights activist

Last updated

2026-06-21

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