Taslima Nasrin is a Bangladeshi author and former physician. Nasrin rose to fame due to her extreme feminist views and her criticism of Islam. She was forced to leave Bangladesh in 1994 and has she lived in various countries since then. Right now she is based in Ne...

Taslima Nasrin is a Bangladeshi author and former physician. Nasrin rose to fame due to her extreme feminist views and her criticism of Islam.

She was forced to leave Bangladesh in 1994 and has she lived in various countries since then. Right now she is based in New Delhi. Her works support the cause of humanism, freedom of thought, equality for women, and human rights.
Nasrin’s father was a physician, and she too studied medicine. After high school and higher secondary studies she studied medicine. After graduation, she practiced gynaecology at a family planning clinic "where she routinely examined young girls who had been raped."

Nasrin started writing poetry when she was 13. She brought out collections of poetry, SeNjuti (Light in the dark) and Nirbashito Bahire Ontore (Banished within and without). She then began writing novels, for which she won critical acclaim. Her novel Her breakthrough novel Lajja (Shame) attracted wide attention because of its controversial plot. It contained descriptions of a rape of a Hindu woman by a Muslim man. The book was eventually banned. Her other famous novel is French Lover.

Nasrin has written more than thirty books of poetry, essays, novels, short stories, and memoirs. Her writings have been translated into more than 20 languages.