Taslima Nasrin (also Taslima Nasreen, born 25 August 1962) is a Bangladeshi-Swedish writer,physician,feminist, secular humanist and activist. She is known for her writing on women's oppression and criticism of religion, despite forced exile.Some of her books are banned in Bangladesh.She has been blacklisted and banished from the Bengal region (both from Bangladesh and West Bengal).Nasrin was born to Dr. Rajab Ali and Edul Ara in Mymensingh. Her father was a physician, and a professor of Medical Jurisprudence in Mymensingh Medical College, also at Sir Salimullah Medical College, Dhaka and Dhaka Medical College. Nasrin studied medicine and became a physician.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. Books by Talimah Nasreen Shame French Lover Split: A Life My Girlhood