Abstract. This is a report of two evenings I spent with Taslima Nasrin in April 1996 in Cambridge (USA). Nasrin is a poet and writer; she was awarded the 1995 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought. Nasrin came to Cambridge to deliver lectures. Especially during the first, informal meeting and dinner, I approached Nasrin as a woman and a friend, trying to understand her, and to delve into her public, dramatic persona as a controversial and criticized writer and polemist, and as a symbol of freedom for thousands of women writers in the world.

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