Taslima Nasrin: Her Life. (Enrica Garzilli) Taslima Nasrin was born on August 25, 1962 in Mymensingh, Bangladesh, from a medical doctor and his wife, both devout Muslims. She got an MBBS degree at the Mymensingh Medical College, and practiced as an anesthesiologist in a government clinic for a few years. She got married three times. She is a self-proclaimed Marxist and atheist. She began her literary career by publishing poetry, and later started writing a newspaper column in Bangladesh, as well as novels and essays. Taslima Nasrin received the prize Mananda Puruskar, Calcutta (1992) and the Natosabha Puruskar, Dhaka (1993).

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