TaslimaSinha Nasreen

Taslima Nasreen is a secular humanist, a human rights activist, and a prolific and bestselling author, who has faced multiple fatwas calling for her death. She was forced to leave Bangladesh by the government in the mid-1990s and has lived in exile since then. She now lives in New Delhi. Taslima is the author of over forty works of fiction and non-fiction in Bengali, which have been published in over thirty languages worldwide. Arunava Sinha translates classic, modern and contemporary Bengali fiction, non-fiction and poetry from India and Bangladesh into English. More than fifty of his translations have been published so far in India, ten in the UK, and six in the US. He teaches translation and creative writing at Ashoka University in India, and edits the Library of Bangladesh series of translated books from Bangladesh. He has won several translation awards.