Noorjahan Bose

Noorjahan Bose
Native name নুরজাহান বোস
Born (1938-03-14) 14 March 1938
Kantakhali, Boro Baishdia, Galachipa, Patuakhali, Bengal Presidency, British India
Nationality Bangladeshi
Spouse(s) Emadullah
Swadesh Bose
(m. 1963; his death 2009)
Awards Anannya Top Ten Awards (2005)

Noorjahan Bose (born 14 March 1938)[1] is a Bangladeshi writer and women's rights activist. She won Bangla Academy Literary Award in the autobiography category in 2016.[2] She founded Aasha and Sanghati – nonprofit organizations focusing on women empowerment.[3]

Background and family

Bose was born in Kantakhali village at Boro Baishdia, an island in the Bay of Bengal.[3] She went to Barisal to finish her matriculation exam. At 16, she married Emadullah, the general secretary of East Pakistan Jubo League. Emadullah died from chickenpox in a year while she was pregnant. After the birth of her first child Jasim, she took a job as a hostel super at a school. She started being a political activist when she got involved with her late husband's closest friend, Swadesh Bose whom she later married in 1963.[3] The couple went to Cambridge, England as Swadesh won a scholarship for his Ph.D. at Cambridge University.[4] In 1967 they settled in Karachi. They moved to Dhaka around the liberation war. She gave birth to two daughters, Mini and Anita. After the war ended, they went to Oxford, England and from there to Washington, United States where Swadesh got a job with the World Bank.[3] Bose completed her master's degree and began her career as a social worker with a Catholic Charity Refugee Program.[3]

In 2000, Bose and her daughter Monica Jahan Bose founded Samhati.[5]

Awards

Works

  • Agunmukhar Meye

References

  1. ↑ Monu, Dil (8 March 2017). "আগুনমুখার মেয়ের কথা" [Words of the girl from Agunmukha] (opinion) (in Bengali). bdnews24.com. Retrieved 26 August 2017.
  2. ↑ "Bangla Academy Sahitya Puroshkar 2016 announced". The Daily Star. 23 January 2017. Retrieved 26 August 2017.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Munim, Rifat (4 March 2011). "Beyond the Doll's House". The Daily Star. Retrieved 25 August 2017.
  4. ↑ "Swadesh Bose passes away". The Daily Star. 3 December 2009. Retrieved 26 August 2017.
  5. ↑ "Storytelling with Saris". storytellingwithsaris.com. Retrieved 26 August 2017.
  6. ↑ "Ten women receive Anannya award". The Daily Star. 3 March 2006. Retrieved 25 August 2017.
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