Noorjahan Bose

Noorjahan Bose (born 14 March 1938) is a Bangladeshi writer and women's rights activist. She won Bangla Academy Literary Award in the autobiography category in 2016. She founded Asha and Samhati – nonprofit organizations focusing on women's empowerment. In 1967 they moved to Karachi. Noorjahan gave birth to a daughter Monica in Cambridge, and a second daughter, Anita, in Karachi. The family moved to Dhaka in early 1971, just before the start of the liberation war.

In 1974, the family moved to Oxford, England and from there to the Washington, United States where Swadesh got a job with the World Bank.

Awards Anannya Top Ten Awards (2005) Ananya Literature Award (2010) Bangla Academy Literary Award (2016)

Works Agunmukhar Meye, Sahitya, Dhaka, 2009