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Taslima Nasrin
Taslima Nasrin · Photo Claude TRUONG-NGOC, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
Person

Taslima Nasrin

b. 1962

Author, secular humanist, and feminist

Born
25 Aug 1962 · Mymensingh
Part ofPakistan520 BCE – todayBangladesh1858 – today

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 74 years
  1. 25 Aug 1962BornBorn in Mymensingh
  2. 1994AwardKurt Tucholsky Prize
  3. 1994AwardSakharov Prize
  4. 1995AwardMonismanien Prize
  5. 2000AwardAnanda Puraskar
  6. 2004AwardUNESCO-Madanjeet Singh Prize
  7. 2008AwardSimone de Beauvoir Prize
  8. 2011AwardHonorary doctorate from the University of Paris-VII
  9. 2014AwardIngemar Hedenius Prize
  10. 2015AwardEmperor Has No Clothes Award

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1962 – today).

  1. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  2. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  3. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  4. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  5. 1968Prague Spring
  6. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  7. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  8. 19741974 FIFA World Cup
  9. 19781978 FIFA World Cup
  10. 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
  11. 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
  12. 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
  13. 19841984 Summer Olympics
  14. 1985Schengen Agreement
  15. 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
  16. 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall
  17. 19901990 FIFA World Cup
  18. 1991Dissolution of the Soviet Union
  19. 19941994 FIFA World Cup
  20. 1994 – 1996First Chechen War
  21. 19981998 FIFA World Cup
  22. 2001 – 2021War in Afghanistan
  23. 2003 – 2011Iraq War
  24. 20042004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
  25. 20062006 FIFA World Cup
  26. 20082008 Summer Olympics
  27. 2008Russo-Georgian War
  28. 20102010 Haiti earthquake
  29. 2010 – 2012Arab Spring
  30. 20112011 Norway attacks
  31. 2011Libyan civil war
  32. 2011 – 2024Syrian civil war
  33. 20122012 Summer Olympics
  34. 20142014 FIFA World Cup
  35. 2014Russo-Ukrainian war
  36. 2015Paris Agreement
  37. 20182018 FIFA World Cup
  38. 2020COVID-19 pandemic
  39. 20212020 Summer Olympics
  40. 2022Russo-Ukrainian war

Biography

Taslima Nasrin (born 25 August 1962) is a Bangladeshi-Swedish writer, physician, feminist, secular humanist, and activist. She is known for her writings on feminism and her criticism of Islam; some of her books are banned in Bangladesh.

She gained global attention by the beginning of the 1990s owing to her essays and novels with feminist views and criticism of what she characterises as all "misogynistic" religions. Nasrin has been living in exile since 1994, with multiple fatwas calling for her death. After living more than a decade in Europe and the United States, she moved to India in 2004 and has been staying there on a resident permit, multiple-entry, or 'X' visa since.

Nasrin has been blacklisted and banished from the Bengal region, including both Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal during the governments of Communist Party of India (Marxist) and Trinamool Congress. After Bharatiya Janata Party's victory in state legislative assembly of West Bengal in 2026, she returned to Kolkata after nearly 20 years in exile from the city.

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