Know of award-winning Indian poet, novelist and academic, Nabaneeta Dev Sen ? . . . . . Happy 77th Birthday to her today on January 13th 2015 ! Nabaneeta Dev Sen was born in Kolkata, to the poet-couple Narendra Dev and Radharani Devi on January 13th 1938. In addition to Bengali and English, she reads Hindi, Oriya, Assamese, French, German, Sanskrit, and Hebrew. Graduating with a Masters 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 Masters degree from Jadavpur University, Calcutta; and a Masters with Distinction from Harvard University. She earned her PhD from Indiana University. She 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. She 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 Shaananim 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. She has held the Maytag Chair of Creative Writing and Comparative Literature at Colorado College 1988–1989. She has represented herself and India in many international conferences, both academic and literary. These conferences have been presented at the Festival of India USA 1986; the Frankfurt Book Fair 1993; and the Munich Book Week 2002. She has held important executive positions in International academic bodies like the International Comparative Literature Association (1973–1979), and The International Association of Semiotic and Structural Studies (1989–1994). She has been the Vice-President of Indian National Comparative Literature Association; chief editor of Bengali in the Macmillans Modern Indian Novel Series. She has also served as Member of the Jury of important literary awards including the Jnanpith award, Saraswati Samman, Kabir Samman, and Rabindra Puraskar. Nabaneeta Dev Sen is the Vice-President of the Bangiya Sahitya Parishat. She is the founder and president of West Bengal Women Writers Association. In 2002, Nabaneeta Dev Sen retired as Professor of Comparative Literature at Jadavpur University, Calcutta. She has been working with the treatment of women in world epics and the treatment of epic poetry by rural women in India. Nabaneeta Dev Sen was nominated as the JP Naik Distinguished Fellow at the Centre of Womens Development Studies, New Delhi, 2003–2005, where she is translating Chandrabatis 16th century Bengali Ramayana text into English with a critical introduction and annotations. Honors and awards : Nabaneeta Dev Sen has received many national and international awards and honours, including: Gouridevi Memorial Award Mahadevi Verma Award (1992) Bharatiya Bhasha Parishad Award Harmony Award Padmashri (2000)[6] Celli Award from Rockefeller Foundation (1993) Sarat Award from Bhagalpur University, Bihar (1994) Prasad Puraskar Sahitya Akademi Award (1999)
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