- Ashapoorna Devi
Ashapoorna Devi (Bengali: আশাপূর্ণা দেবী), also Ashapurna Debi or Asha Purna Devi, is a prominent Bengali
novelist andpoet . She was born in 1909. She has been widely honoured with a number of prizes and awards. She was awarded thePadma Shri by theGovernment of India in 1976; D.Litt by the Universities of Jabalpur, Rabindra Bharati, Burdwan and Jadavpur. Vishwa Bharati University honoured her withDeshikottama in 1989. For her contribution as a novelist and short story writer, theSahitya Akademi conferred its highest honour, the Fellowship, in 1994. She died in 1995.Accolades
*The Lila Prize from the
University of Calcutta (1954)
*The Bhutan Mohini Dasi Gold Medal (1966):
*TheRaindrop Memorial Prize from theGovernment of West Bengal (1966)
*TheJnanpith Award (1976)for 'Prothom Protisruti'
*TheHaranath Ghosh Medal from theBangiya Sahitya Parishad (1988)
*TheJagattarini Gold Medal from the University of Calcutta (1993)External links
* [http://www.kalpana.it/eng/writer/indianwriters/ashapurna.htm A short biography of Ashapoorna Devi]
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