Nabaneeta Dev Sen
| Nabaneeta Dev Sen নবনীতা দেবসেন |
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Nabaneeta Dev Sen
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| Born |
13 January 1938 Kolkata, Bengal, British India |
| Occupation | novelist, children's author, poet, academic |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Ethnicity | Bengali Hindu |
| Notable awards |
Padma Shri (2000), Sahitya Akademi Award (1999), Kamal Kumari National Award (2004) |
| Spouse | Amartya Sen (1958–1976) |
| Children |
Antara Dev Sen (daughter) Nandana Sen (daughter) |
Nabaneeta Dev Sen (Bengali: নবনীতা দেবসেন; Nôbonita Deb Sen) (born 13 January 1938), Padma Shri (2000) is an award-winning Indian poet, novelist and academic.
Nabaneeta Dev Sen was born in Kolkata, to the poet-couple Narendra Dev and Radharani Devi. In addition to Bengali and English, she reads Hindi, Oriya, Assamese, French, German, Sanskrit, and Hebrew. Graduating with a master's degree in 1958, she married Amartya Sen in the following year. In 1976 they were divorced and she went abroad for higher studies. Nabaneeta Dev Sen lives in Kolkata, in her parental house Bhalo-Basa, where she was born, now declared a Heritage Building. She has two daughters, Antara Dev Sen and Nandana Sen, with former husband economist Amartya Sen, and one adopted daughter, Srabasti Basu.
She graduated from Presidency College and received her master's degree from Jadavpur University, Calcutta; and a Masters with Distinction from Harvard University. She earned her PhD from Indiana University.
Nabaneeta Dev Sen completed her post-doctoral research at the University of California at Berkeley; and Newnham College, Cambridge University. She was also a University Grants Commission Senior Fellow at University of Delhi.
Nabaneeta Dev Sen has been a writer in residence at several international artists' colonies, including Yaddo and MacDowell Colony in the United States; Bellaggio in Italy; and the Mishkenot Sha'ananim in Jerusalem. She has been a visiting professor and a visiting creative writer at several universities in the United States, including Harvard, Cornell, Rutgers, Columbia, Smith College, and Chicago. In Canada, she has been visiting professor at Toronto, York, and British Columbia. Other countries where she has participated as professor include Mexico, England, Germany, France, and Japan. Nabaneeta Dev Sen has delivered the Radhakrishnan Memorial Lecture series (1996–1997) at Oxford University on epic poetry.
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