b. August 25, 1962 in Mymensingh, East Pakistan (now Bangladesh)
Muminunnisa College, attended 1976-1978
Mymensingh Medical College, received MBBS, 1984
later moved to Dhaka
in the late 1980's came to prominence as a poet, columnist, journalist and novelist
persecuted by militant Islam for her writings, bounties placed on her head, and a fatwa declared on her
in exile in Stockholm, Sweden since 1994
Taslima Nasrin at Post Colonial Studies at Emory