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Mahasweta Devi

 

Mahasweta Devi was born on 14 January in 1926, in Dhaka, Bangladesh. She was a Bengali fiction writer, a social activist, a crusader for the tribal communities, and a feminist. Mahasweta Devi worked as a journalist and an English professor. She has almost a 100 novels and over 20 collections of short stories to her name, primarily written in Bengali but often translated to other languages. She had completed her BA and MA in English in West Bengal."Jhansir Rani"(1956) was her 1st book. Her masterpieces includes 'Draupadi', 'Haazar Churasi Kimau', 'Rudali',etc. She has been described as one of the boldest female writers in India. She was also the founding member of Aboriginal United Association Mahasweta Devi has won both the Sahitya Akademi ( in 1979) and Jnanpith ( in 1996) awards for literary excellence.She is also a recipient of the Ramon Magsaysay award ( in 1997) and the Padma Vibhushan (2006) and  Padamshri ( in 1986). This great woman took her last breath on 28 July in 2016.