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Nilima Ibrahim

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Nationality
  
Bangladeshi

Education
  
University of Calcutta

Role
  
Litterateur


Name
  
Nilima Ibrahim

Occupation
  
writer, educationist

Children
  
Dolly Anwar

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Full Name
  
Nilima Roy Chowdhury

Born
  
11 January 1921 (
1921-01-11
)
Mulghar, Fakirhat, Bagerhat, British India (now Bangladesh)

Alma mater
  
University of CalcuttaDhaka University

Notable work
  
Ami Virangana Balchhi  · Unabingsha Shatabdir Bangali Samaj o Bangla Natak

Spouse(s)
  
Mohammad Ibrahim (m. 1945)

Awards
  
Bangla Academy Award (1969)Ekushey Padak (2000)Independence Day Award (2011)

Died
  
June 18, 2002, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Parents
  
Kusum Kumari Devi, Prafulla Roy Chowdhury

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Nilima Ibrahim (Bengali: নীলিমা ইব্রাহীম; 1921–2002) was a Bangladeshi educationist, littérateur and social worker. She is well known for her scholarship on Bengali literature but even more so for her depiction of raped and tortured women in the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War in her book Ami Birangona Bolchhi (I, the heroine, speaks).

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Early life and education

Nilima was born on 11 January 1921 in Bagerhat, Khulna to Zamindar Prafulla Roy Chowdhury and Kusum Kumari Devi. Nilima passed her school leaving examination and entrance level examinations from the Khulna Coronation Girls' School in 1937 and from the Victoria Institution in Calcutta in 1939. Later she earned bachelor's degrees in arts and teaching from the Scottish Church College, which was followed by an MA in Bengali literature from the University of Calcutta in 1943. She would also earn a doctorate in Bengali literature from the University of Dhaka in 1959.

Career

Nilima was a career academic. She taught in respectively the Khulna Coronation Girls' School, Loreto House, the Victoria Institution, and finally at the University of Dhaka, where she was appointed as a lecturer in 1956, and as a professor of Bengali in 1972. She also served as the chairperson of the Bangla Academy, and as the Vice Chairperson of the World Women's Federation's South Asian Zone.

Non-fiction

  • Sharat-Pratibha (The Creative Faculty of Sharatchanda), 1960,
  • Banglar Kavi Madhusudan (Madhushudan, the Poet of Bengal), 1961,
  • Unabingsha Shatabdir Bangali Samaj o Bangla Natak (Bengali Society and Bengali Drama in the 19th century), 1964,
  • Bangla Natak: Utsa o Dhara (Bengali Drama: Origin and Development), 1972,
  • Begum Rokeya, 1974,
  • Bangalimanas o Bangla Sahitya (Bengali Mentality and Bengali Literature), 1987,
  • Sahitya-Sangskrtir Nana Prasanga (Various Aspects of Literature and Culture), 1991

    • Fiction

  • Bish Shataker Meye (Girl of the Twentieth Century), 1958,
  • Ek Path Dui Bank (The Forked Road), 1958,
  • Keyabana Sancharini (Traveller of Keya Forest), 1958,
  • Banhi Balay (The Bangle of Fire), 1985

    • Plays

  • Due Due Char (Two and Two Make Four), 1964,
  • Je Aranye Alo Nei (The Dark Forest), 1974,
  • Rodjwala Bikel (The Sunburnt Afternoon), 1974,
  • Suryaster Par (After Sunset), 1974

    • Short stories

  • Ramna Parke (At Ramna Park), 1964

    • Translations

  • Eleanor Roosevelt, 1955,
  • Kathashilpi James Fenimor Cooper (Storyteller James Fenimore Cooper), 1968,
  • Bostoner Pathe Pathe (On the Streets of Boston), 1969

    • Travelogue

  • Shahi Elakar Pathe Pathe (Along the Royal Streets), 1963

    • Autobiography

  • Bindu-Visarga (Dot and Ghost), 1991

    • Narratives/Ethnography

  • Ami Virangana Bolchhi (I, the Heroine, Speaks), 1996

    • Awards

  • Bangla Academy Award (1969)
  • Michael Madhusudan Award (1987)
  • Lekhika Sangha Award (1989)
  • Ananya Literary Award (1996)
  • Begum Rokeya Medal (1996)
  • Bangabandhu Award (1997)
  • Ekushey Padak (2000)

    • References

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