Ashapoorna Devi

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Ashapoorna Devi (Bengali: আশাপূর্ণা দেবী), also Ashapurna Debi or Asha Purna Devi, is a prominent Bengali novelist and poet. She was born in 1909. She has been widely honoured with a number of prizes and awards. She was awarded the Padma Shri by the Government of India in 1976; D.Litt by the Universities of Jabalpur, Rabindra Bharati, Burdwan and Jadavpur. Vishwa Bharati University honoured her with Deshikottama in 1989. For her contribution as a novelist and short story writer, the Sahitya Akademi conferred its highest honour, the Fellowship, in 1994. She died in 1995.

[edit] Accolades

• The Lila Prize from the University of Calcutta (1954)
• The Bhutan Mohini Dasi Gold Medal (1966):
• The Raindrop Memorial Prize from the Government of West Bengal (1966)
• The Jnanpith Award (1976)
• The Haranath Ghosh Medal from the Bangiya Sahitya Parishad (1988)
• The Jagattarini Gold Medal from the University of Calcutta (1993)

[edit] External links

• A short biography of Ashapoorna Devi