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Ashapurna Devi
Indian writer
Ashapurna Devi (8 January 1909 – 12 July 1995),[1] 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,[2] D.Litt. by the Universities of Jabalpur, Rabindra Bharati, Burdwan and Jadavpur.
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Vishwa Bharati University honoured her with Deshikottam 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.[3]
Biography
Ashapurna Devi was born in a Baidya family on 8 January 1909 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 l