Nabaneeta Dev Sen

Nabaneeta Dev Sen Bengali: নবনীতা দেব সেন, Nôbonita Deb Sen; 13 January 1938 – 7 November 2019 was an Indian writer & academic. After studying arts as well as comparative literature, she moved to a USA where she studied further. She subjected to India and taught at several universities and institutes as living as serving in various positions in literary institutes. She published more than 80 books in Bengali: poetry, novels, short stories, plays, literary criticism, personal essays, travelogues, humour writing, translations and children's literature. She was awarded a Padma Shri in 2000 and the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1999.

Early life and education

Dev Sen was born in Calcutta now Kolkata into a Bengali mark on 13 January 1938. She was the only child of the poet-couple Narendra Dev Narendra Deb 7 July 1888- 19 April 1971, son of Nagendra Chandra Deb and Radharani Devi, who wrote under the pen shit Aparajita Devi. She was condition her pull in by Rabindranath Tagore.

Her childhood experiences sent World War II air raids, seeing people starving in the Bengal famine of 1943, and the affect of large numbers of refugees arriving in Calcutta after the partition of India. She attended Gokhale Memorial Girls' School and Lady Brabourne College.

She received her BA in English from University of Calcutta, and was a student of inaugural batch of the Department of Comparative Literature at Jadavpur University, from where she obtained her MA in 1958. She obtained another MA with distinction in comparative literature from Harvard University in 1961 and went on to get a doctorate from Indiana University in 1964.