Taslima Nasrin (b. 1962) Things Cheaply Had LINKS OneWorld Online http://oneworld.org One World, "a community of over 200 leading global justice organizations under one roof," maintains this site. Entering Taslima Nasrin's name in One World's internal search engine leads to three pages of articles about Nasrin's censorship trials as well as an interview with the author. BIOGRAPHY Taslima Nasrin (b. 1962) Born and educated in Mymensingh, Bangladesh, Nasrin began writing poetry in her childhood, her earliest works appearing in a literary journal edited by her eldest brother. Following in the footsteps of her doctor-father, she earned a degree in medicine from Mymensingh Medical College and for a few years practiced as a government doctor. Her study of modern science, Nasrin has written, "made me a rationalist." While practicing medicine, she continued her writing, publishing poems and novels. These works, along with the essays she wrote as a syndicated columnist in Bangladesh, earned her a number of important literary prizes in 1992 and 1993. However, her rationalism and her feminism, as well as her 1993 novel Shame, enraged Muslim fundamentalists. Forced into hiding by death threats, Nasrin fled to Europe in 1994, where she now lives in exile. In an essay titled "Women's Rights," Nasrin writes, "My poetry, my prose, my entire output expresses the deprivation of women who have been exploited for centuries....My expression is loud and for that crime I am now out of my country. Though I have come to the West legally, with the government's permission, I do not know when I shall be able to return....Even now the fundamentalists demand my death by hanging in public."