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Ashapurna Devi

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Directed movies: 0Directed series: 0All crew credits: 14

TMDB ID: 3280951

Known for: Writing

Place of birth: Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India [now India]

Gender: Female

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Career span: 1953 - 2020

Years active: 68

Also known as

Ashapoorna Devi • Ashapoorna Debi

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Biography

Ashapurna Devi (8 January 1909 – 12 July 1995), 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, 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 Sahitya Akademi Fellowship, in 1994.

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