Ashapurna Devi-Brief Life Sketch

Ashapurna Devi-Brief Life Sketch

Ashapurna Devi-Brief Life Sketch

Ashapurna Devi was an Indian Bengali female poet and novelist. She was born on January 8, 1909, in a conservative Hindu family in the Hooghly district of West Bengal. Being from a conservative family, she was deprived of getting a formal education. Of course, under the guidance of her mother who loved literature, she developed the desire and habit of reading books at home. He started his literary career by publishing a poem in a children’s magazine at the age of 13. Through her lifelong literary endeavours, Ashapurna Devi had written 176 novels, 30 collections of short stories, 47 children’s books and 25 other books, making an unprecedented contribution to Bengali and Indian literature. She was awarded the ‘Jnanpith Award’ in 1976 for her novel ‘Pratham Protishruti’. Ashapurna Devi died on July 13, 1995.  0 0 0

N.B.  The article originally belongs to the book ‘Introduction to World Personalities‘ by Menonim Menonimus.

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