Nasreen Jahan

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Nasreen Jahan (Bengali: নাসরীন জাহান), (1966) is a well known, modern Bangladeshi author, famous novelist.

1 Life
2 Literary style
3 Works
- 3.1 Novels
4 Awards
5 External links

[edit] Life

Nasreen Jahan was born and brought up in Mymensingh. She joined the Chander Hat, a national children's and juvenile organizaiton in 1974 and started to write rhymes and short stories in the children's page of daily Purbadesh. She was profusely encouraged by writer-editor Rafiqul Haque who was also a top-brass rhymer of Bangladesh. Later she concentrated on short stories and published in all leading literary papers and magazines of the country including the Kishore Bangla. She got married to poet Anwar Ahmed in 1984. She has a daughter.

Her novel Urukku, published in 1993, became a hit after it was awarded the Philips Literary Award in 1994. For a brief period in 1993-94, she worked for the Banglabazaar Patrika published and edited by Matiur Rahman Chowdhury for its weekly literary suppliment. Since late 1990s, she has been working as the editor of the literature section of women's weekly Ananya. She a feminist, who believes in women's freedom without disrespect for tradition and social norms.

[edit] Literary style

She has distinguished herself with her poetic prose and psychological approach to human behaviour. She is capable of handling intricate human mind with dexterity. She is prone to focus on man-woman relationship in the backdrop of social fabric and examine its intricacies. Nasreen Jahan has candidly treated sex as a theme and went ahead of time by refelcting on male homosexualityin a number of short stories and novels. However, her works are never erotic in nature.