Taslima Nasrin (also Taslima Nasreen, born 25 August 1962) is a Bangladeshi author and former physician with Swedish citizenship who has been living in exile since 1994. From a literary profile as a poet in the late 1970s, she gained global attention by the beginning of 1990s owing to her essays and novels with feminist views and criticism of what she characterizes as all "misogynistic" religions including Islam.
