100 Poems of Taslima Nasreen

by Taslima Nasrin, Kabir Chowdhury (Translator)

English (translation)
Original Bengali

96 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1997

About the author

Taslima Nasrin (Bengali: তসলিমা নাসরিন) is an award-winning Bangladeshi writer, physician, secular humanist and human rights activist, known for her powerful writings on women oppression and unflinching criticism of religion, despite forced exile and multiple fatwas calling for her death. Early in her literary career, she wrote mainly poetry, and published half a dozen collections of poetry between 1982 and 1993, often with female oppression as a theme. She started publishing prose in the early 1990s, and produced three collections of essays and four novels before the publication of her 1993 novel Lajja (Bengali: লজ্জা Lôjja), or Shame. Because of her thoughts and ideas she has been banned, blacklisted and banished from Bengal, both from Bangladesh and West Bengal part of India. Since fleeing Bangladesh in 1994, she has lived in many countries, and lives in United States as of July 2016. Nasrin has written 40 books in Bengali, which includes poetry, essays, novels and autobiography series. Her works have been translated in thirty different languages. Some of her books are banned in Bangladesh.'

Reviews

[Sujana Rahman]

good

[Krista the Krazy Kataloguer · Rating 4 out of 5]

Bangladeshi poet.

[Boukhalfa Inal Ahmed · Rating 2 out of 5]

Taslima Nasreen est née au Bangladesh, l'un des pays les plus pauvres au monde. Un pays où la religion musulmane sert de prétexte pour étouffer et maltraiter les femmes de façon institutionnelle et banale.
Il faut saluer , à mon sens, le travail de la traductrice qui a su rendre la langue de l'auteur fluide (exercice pas forcément facile, surtout avec de la poésie !).
Dans ses poèmes en prose, on sens la rage et l'indignation intact, brute de décoffrage mais pas vindicative. Juste beau et frappant.
J'ai été très touchée et révoltée par cette lecture, que ce soit lorsque Taslima Nasreen nous conte les mésaventures ordinaires de jeunes filles ou femmes qui ont eu le malheur de naître du mauvais côté, ou que ce soit avec la sensualité dont elle parle de l'amour, la colère de la femme désillusionnée par celui qu'elle aimait ou la douleur de la fille devenue femme qui a perdue sa mère et regrette de ne pas l'avoir comprise.
Une très belle découverte.