My little horse must think it queer To stop without a farmhouse near Between the woods and frozen lake The darkest evening of the year.

Feminest, Freedom Fighter, Doctor, Author, Secular Humanist and Atheist                          

Selected Works:

Poetry:

Shikore Bipul Khudha - Hunger in the Roots, 1986
Nirbashito Bahire Ontore - Banished Without and Within, 1989
Amar Kichu Jay Ashe Ne - I Couldn’t Care Less, 1990
Atole Ontorin - Captive In the Abyss, 1991
Balikar Gollachut - Game of the Girls, 1992
Behula Eka Bhashiyechilo Bhela - Behula Floated the Raft Alone, 1993
Ay Kosto Jhepe, Jibon Debo Mepe - Pain Come Roaring Down
I’ll Measure Out My Life for You, 1994
Nirbashito Narir Kobita - Poems From Exile, 1996
Jolpodyo - Waterlilies, 2000
Khali Khali Lage - Feeling Empty, 2004
Kicchukhan Thako - Stay For A While, 2005
Bhalobaso? Cchai baso - It's your love! or a heap of trash!, 2007
Bondini Prisoner, 2008

Essay Collections:

Nirbachito Column - Selected Columns, 1990
Jabo na keno? jabo - I will go; why won't I?, 1991
Noshto meyer noshto goddo - Fallen prose of a fallen girl, 1992
ChoTo choTo dukkho kotha - Tale of trivial sorrows, 1994
Narir Kono Desh Nei - Women have no country, 2007

Novels:

Oporpokkho - The Opponent, 1992
Shodh, 1992 - Translation in English as Getting Even
Nimontron - Invitation, 1993
Phera - Return, 1993
Lajja, 1993 - Translation  in English as Shame
Bhromor Koio Gia - Tell Him The Secret, 1994
Forashi Premik - French Lover, 2002
Shorom - Shame Again, 2009

Short Stories:

Dukkhoboty meye - Sad girls, 1994
Minu, 2007

Autobiography:

Amar Meyebela - My Girlhood, 1999
Utal Hawa - Wild Wind, 2002
Ka - Speak Up, 2003; published in West Bengal as Dwikhondito - Split-up in Two, 2003
Sei Sob Andhokar - Those Dark Days, 2004
Ami Bhalo Nei, Tumi Bhalo Theko Priyo Desh - "I am not okay, but you stay well my beloved homeland", 2006.
Nei, Kichu Nei -  Nothing is there, 2010

Titles in English:

All About Women - 2005 
Kabir Chowdhury - Translation  1997. 100 poems of Taslima Nasreen. Dhaka: Ananya
Carolyne Wright - Translation  c1995. The Game in Reverse
Rani Ray - Translation - 2005. Homecoming -  Translation of Phera.
Shame - 1994 - Translation of Lajja.
Carolyne Wright - Translation - 1992
Light Up at Midnight: Selected Poems. Dhaka: Biddyaprakash
Ashim Chowdhury - Translation - c2005. Love poems of Taslima Nasreen
Gopa Majumdar - Translation - 2002. My Bengali Girlhood - Translation of Meyebela
Gopa Majumdar - Translation - 2001. My Girlhood: An Autobiography. New Delhi: Kali for Women
Debjani Sengupta - Translation - 2004. Selected Columns
Kankabati Datta - Translation - 1997. Shame: A Novel
Rani Ray - Translation - c2003. Shodh: Getting Even
Nandini Guh - Translation - 2006
Wild Wind: My Stormy Youth - Autobiography - 2006

Secondary Works:

Garzilli, Enrica - 1997. "A Non-Conventional Woman: Two Evenings with A Report". Journal of South Asia Women Studies - Milan: Asiatica Association 3 - 1.  Includes an interview with and two unpublished poems by Nasrin.
Zafar, Manmay - 2005. "Under the gaze of the state: policing literature and the case of Taslima Nasrin". Inter-Asia Cultural Studies 6 - 3.                          

First husband Rudra Mohammad Shahidullah - 1982-1986
Second husband Nayeemul Islam Khan - 1987-1991
Third husband  Minar Mahmood - 1991- 1992.                          

Awards:

Ananda literary Award, India - 1992
Natyasava Award, Bangladesh - 1992
Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thoughts from the European Parliament - 1994
Human Rights Award from the Government of France - 1994
Edict of Nantes Prize from France - 1994
Kurt Tucholsky Prize, Swedish PEN, Sweden - 1994
Hellman-Hammett Grant from Human Rights Watch, USA - 1994
Humanist Award from Human-Etisk Forbund, Norway -  1994
Feminist of the Year from Feminist Majority Foundation, USA - 1994
Honorary Doctorate from Ghent University, Belgium -  1995
Scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service, Germany - 1995
Monismanien Prize from Uppsala University, Sweden -  1995
Distinguished Humanist Award from International Humanist and Ethical Union, Great Britain - 1996
Humanist Laureate from International Academy for Humanism, USA - 1996
Ananda literary Award, India - 2000
Global Leader for Tomorrow, World Economic Forum -  2000
Erwin Fischer Award, International League of non-religious and atheists (IBKA), Germany - 2002
Freethought Heroine Award, Freedom From Religion Foundation, USA - 2002
Fellowship at Carr Centre for Human Rights Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, USA - 2003
UNESCO-Madanjeet Singh Prize for the promotion of tolerance and non-violence, - 2004
Honorary Doctorate from American University of Paris -  2005
Grand Prix International Condorcet-Aron - 2005
Sharatchandra literary award, West Bengal, India - 2006
Honorary citizenship of Paris, France - 2008
Simone de Beauvoir Prize - 2008
Fellowship at New York University, USA - 2009
Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, USA - 2009
Feminist Press award, USA -  2009                          

Taslima practiced gynaecology at a family planning clinic in Mymensingh, where she examined young girls who had been raped, and heard women in the delivery room cry out in despair if their baby was a girl. Taslima was born into a Muslim Family.

Taslima called for revision of the Sharia, the islamic religious law.

Taslima created the Edulwara scholarship in her mother's name to give scholarship - 50,000-100,000 taka, to twenty female students of 7th to 10th grade from economically poor families in Mymensingh, Bangladesh.
Taslima started an organisation called Dharmamukta Manab-bai mancha - "Humanist organisation free from religion" in Kolkata. The organisation's aim was to enlighten and spread secular education, and to fight for women's rights and a uniform and equal civil code.

Taslima was brought up on "charges of making inflammatory statements," and faced death threats from Islamic fundamentalists and religious Muslims.