MAHASWETA DEVI

She was born in 1926 in Dhaka, to literary parents. Her father Manish Ghatak was a poet and a novelist, and her mother Dharitri Devi was also a writer and a social worker. Her first schooling was in Dhaka, but after the partition of India she moved to West Bengal in India. She joined Vishvabharati University in Santiniketan and completed a B.A. (Hons) in English, and then finished an M.A. in English at Calcutta University.
Mahasweta Devi started writing at a young age, and contributed short stories to various literary magazines. Her first novel, Nati, was published in 1957 Among her masterpieces are Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Maa, Rudali, Bioscoper Baksho, and Chatti Munda O Tar Tir. She writes about the lives of ordinary men and women, particularly Adivasi (tribal) people like the Santhals, Lodhas, Shabars and Mundas, and other topics of social and political relevance. Hazaar Chaursai ki Maa has recently been filmed.
She is also an activist and has spent many years crusading for the rights of the tribals. Among her many awards is the Jnanpith Award (India's highest literary award) in 1996, and the Magsaysay Award in 1997, the Asian equivalent of the Nobel prize.

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