Ashapurna Devi

Personal Info

Known For Writer

Gender Female

Place of Birth Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India [now India]

Also Known As Ashapoorna Devi, Ashapoorna Debi

Ashapurna Devi

Biography

Ashapurna Devi (8 January 1909 – 12 July 1995), also Ashapoorna Devi or Ashapurna Debi, was a prominent Indian novelist and poet in Bengali. In 1976, she was awarded the Jnanpith Award and Padma Shri by the Government of India, D.Litt. by the Universities of Jabalpur, Rabindra Bharati, Burdwan and Jadavpur. Vishwa Bharati University honoured her with Deshikottama in 1989. For her contribution as a novelist and short story writer, the Sahitya Akademi conferred its highest honour, the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship, in 1994.

Known For

Writer

2020
Captive

as Story

2002
Annadata

as Story

1984
Jog Biyog

as Novel

1967
1965
Kanch Kata Hire

as Author

1964
Sadhana

as Original Story

1963
Chaya Surya

as Story

1962
Aathma Bandhuvu

as Writer

1959
1956
Nabajanma

as Story

1954
Agni Pariksha

as Story

1954
Kalyani

as Story

1953
Jog Biyog

as Story