Bangladeshi Gets $20,000 Swedish Writing Prize
<i> Associated Press</i>
STOCKHOLM —
Taslima Nasrin, the Bangladeshi author who took refuge in Sweden because of death threats in her homeland, received a $20,000 award Monday for writers seeking solitude.
Sweden’s branch of the international writers group PEN awarded Nasrin the Kurt Tulcholsky Prize.
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