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Maitreyi Devi
Indian poet and novelist
Maitreyi Devi (or Maitreyī Devī; 10 September 1914 – 29 January 1989[1]) was an Indian poet and novelist. She is best known for her Sahitya Akademi Award-winning novel, Na Hanyate (transl. 'It Does Not Die').
Biography
Devi was born in 1914.[2] She was the daughter of philosopher Surendranath Dasgupta and protégée of poet Rabindranath Tagore.[2][3] She studied in St.
John's Diocesan Girls' Higher Secondary School, Calcutta (now Kolkata) and graduated from the Jogamaya Devi College, an affiliated undergraduate women's college of the historic University of Calcutta, in Kolkata.[4] She published her first book of poetry in 1930, at age 16, with a preface by Tagore.[5]
By this time she was already attending university, and that year the Romanian intellectual Mircea Eliade was invited by her father to stay at their house.[2] After several months, when her par