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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
Inter-national Humanist and Ethical Union,
Free-thought Heroine award from Freedom
From Religion foundation, USA., IBKA award,
Ger-many, and Feminist Press Award, USA . She
got the UNESCO Madanjeet Singh prize for
Promo-tion of the Tolerance and Non-violence
in 2005. She received the Medal of honor of
Lyon.
Taslima Nasreen
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
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 43 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.
www.taslimanasrin.com