Maitreyi Devi
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Maitreyi Devi (or Maitreyī Devī) (September 1, 1914 – January 29, 1989) was a Bengali-born Indian poet and novelist.
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Life
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Education
She graduated from the Jogamaya Devi College, an affiliated undergraduate women's college of the historic University of Calcutta, in Kolkata.[4]
Awards
She received Sahitya Akademi Award in the year 1976 for her novel Na Hanyate.
See also
- Mircea Eliade--Maitreyi, Bucureşti, 1933
- Maitreyi Devi--It Does Not Die. A Romance. Translated by Maitreyi Devi. University of Chicago Press, 1994
- Mircea Eliade--Bengal Nights, University of Chicago Press, 1994
- List of Sahitya Akademi Award winners for Bengali
References
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- ↑ Firdaus Azim, The Journal of Asian Studies, Association for Asian Studies, Vol. 55, 1996, pp. 1035-103
- ↑ [1] A Terrible Hurt: The Untold Story behind the Publishing of Maitreyi Devi, by Ginu Kamani, accessed 30 January 2010
- ↑ History of the College
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- Bengali novelists
- Bengali poets
- Rabindranath Tagore
- 1914 births
- 1990 deaths
- Jogamaya Devi College alumni
- University of Calcutta alumni
- Indian women writers
- 20th-century women writers
- 20th-century Indian poets
