(1938-01-13)13 January 1938 Calcutta, British India
Died
7 November 2019(2019-11-07) (aged 81) Kolkata, India
Occupation
Novelist, children's author, poet, academic
Education
University of Calcutta (BA) Jadavpur University (MA) Harvard University (MA) Indiana University, Bloomington (PhD)
Notable awards
Padma Shri (2000)
Sahitya Akademi Award (1999)
Kamal Kumari National Award (2004)
Spouse
Amartya Sen
(m. 1958; div. 1976)
Children
Antara and Nandana
Nabaneeta Dev Sen (Nôbonita Deb Sen; 13 January 1938 – 7 November 2019) was an Indian writer and academic. After studying arts and comparative literature, she moved to the US where she studied further. She returned to India and taught at several universities and institutes as well 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 the Padma Shri in 2000 and the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1999.
NabaneetaDevSen (Nôbonita Deb Sen; 13 January 1938 – 7 November 2019) was an Indian writer and academic. After studying arts and comparative literature...
Antara DevSen (born 1963) is an Indian journalist based in Delhi. Antara was born in Cambridge, England and did her schooling in Delhi and later in Kolkata...
Nandana DevSen is an Indian-born American actress, screenwriter, children's author and child-rights activist. Her first film role in Bollywood was Sanjay...
development in Asia, Sen sought to reform the current development model. Sen has been married three times. His first wife was NabaneetaDevSen, an Indian writer...
married to actor and activist Nandana Sen, daughter of Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen and Padmashri-awardee NabaneetaDevSen. He has used his knowledge of business...
birth. Their second child was NabaneetaDevSen, who later became an avid Bengali female poet and married Amartya Sen. Devi and Deb were very close to...
Vilayat Khan, academic and author Mamoni Raisom Goswami, journalist Kanak Sen Deka and noted Bollywood screenwriter Salim Khan, have declined the Padma...
Madhusudan Dutt, poet and dramatist NabaneetaDevSen (Nôbonita Deb Shen) (born 1938), writer and poet Nabinchandra Sen (1847–1909), poet and writer Premendra...
"Khan academy". YouTube. November 16, 2006. Retrieved August 26, 2010. Sen, Ashish Kumar (June 28, 2010). "Bookmark: The Prof Who Keeps His Shirt On"...
personalities. Among these are: The writer NabaneetaDevSen wrote of a 'medical miracle' she had seen. Her father, Naren Dev, was in coma for several days but...
prize for Manipuri translation of History of Bengali Literature by Sukumar Sen. In 1991, Radhika Mohan Bhagowati got this prize for Assamese translation...
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