Nabaneeta Dev Sen
Nabaneeta Dev Sen (13 January 1938 - 7 November 2019) was an Indian poet, novelist and academic.
Sen published more than 80 books in Bengali: poetry, novels, short stories, plays, literary criticism, personal essays, travelogues, humour writing, translations and children' s literature. Her first collection of poems Pratham Pratyay was published in 1959.
She was married to economist Amartya Sen from 1958 until their divorce in 1976.
Sen died at her home in Kolkata of lung cancer on 7 November 2019 at the age of 81.
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Other websites
The Times of India biog on Nabaneeta Deb Sen
1938 births
2019 deaths
Deaths from lung cancer
Indian educators
Indian poets
Indian novelists