Bangladeshi Novelists

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 27. Chapters: Taslima Nasrin, Abdur Rouf Choudhury, Humayun Ahmed, Muhammed Mansooruddin, Ahmed Sofa, Syed Mujtaba Ali, Rahat Khan, Iffat Ara, Shahidul Jahir, Zahir Raihan, Munier Chowdhury, Tahmima Anam, Shawkat Osman, Anisul Hoque, Shahidullah Kaiser, Abdullah al Mamun, Abu Rushd, Al Mahmud, Akhteruzzaman Elias, Shamsuddin Abul Kalam, Imdadul Haq Milon, Humayun Kabir Dhali, Razia Khan, Anwar Pasha, Hasan Azizul Huq, Syed Waliullah, Selina Hossain, Moinul Ahsan Saber, Shawkat Ali, Mokbula Manzoor, Dilara Hashim, Manju Sarkar, Bashir Al Helal, Haripada Datta, Abubakar Siddique, Sumonto Aslam. Excerpt: Taslima Nasrin (Bengali: ) (born 25 August 1962) 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 (Bengali: ), is also spelled Taslima Nasreen; she is popularly referred to as "Taslima," her first name, rather than "Nasrin." She was born to Rajab Ali and Idul Ara in the town of Mymensingh in 1962. Her father was a physician, and she followed in his footsteps. Her mother was a devout Muslim. After high school in 1976 (SSC) and higher secondary studies in college (HSC) in 1978, she studied medicine at the Mymensingh Medical College an affiliated medical college of the University of Dhaka and graduated in 1984 with an MBBS degree; in college, she showed a propensity for poetry by writing as well as editing a poetry j...