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    • Ashapurna Devi

    Indian writer

    Ashapurna Devi (8 January &#; 12 July ),[1] also Ashapoorna Devi or Ashapurna Debi, was a prominent Indian novelist and poet in Bengali. In , she was awarded the Jnanpith Award and Padma Shri by the Government of India,[2] by the Universities of Jabalpur, Rabindra Bharati, Burdwan and Jadavpur. Vishwa Bharati University honoured her with Deshikottam in For her contribution as a novelist and short story writer, the Sahitya Akademi conferred its highest honour, the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship, in [3]

    Biography

    Ashapurna Devi was born in a Baidya family on 8 January in North Calcutta. Her birth name was Asha Purna Devi (Gupta). Her early childhood was spent in a traditional and extremely conservative family. Female children of the house were not allowed to go to school. Private tutors were employed only for the boys.[4] It is said that as a baby Ashapurna used to listen to the readings of her brothers sit