Late Nabaneeta
Dev Sen was one of the prominent Bengali
litterateurs of our times with more than 80 books to her name. A student of
Presidency, Jadavpur; Indiana, Harvard, Cambridge, and Berkeley universities,
and an outstanding academic, she retired as Professor of Comparative
Literature, Jadavpur University, Kolkata. Her works reflect her intellection on
an amazing array of social, political, and psychological topics, under different
genres like poetry, novels, short stories, plays, literary criticism,
travelogues, translations, and children’s literature. Her Radhakrishnan
Memorial Lecture series at Oxford University, a pioneering work on women’s Ramayanas, has started a new school of studies on Sita across the
world. Founder President of Soi—Women Writers’ Association of West Bengal, she
has received national and international awards, including Padma Shri, Sahitya
Akademi Award, and Bangla Akademi Lifetime Achievement Award.