Nabaneeta Dev Sen

Nabaneeta Dev Sen
Born	(1938-01-13)13 January 1938 Calcutta, British India
Died	7 November 2019(2019-11-07) (aged 81) Kolkata, India
Occupation	Novelist, children's author, poet, academic
Education	University of Calcutta (BA) Jadavpur University (MA) Harvard University (MA) Indiana University, Bloomington (PhD)
Notable awards	Padma Shri (2000) Sahitya Akademi Award (1999) Kamal Kumari National Award (2004)
Spouse	Amartya Sen ​ ​ (m. 1958; div. 1976)​
Children	Antara and Nandana

Nabaneeta Dev Sen (Nôbonita Deb Sen; 13 January 1938 – 7 November 2019) was an Indian writer and academic. After studying arts and comparative literature, she moved to the US where she studied further. She returned to India and taught at several universities and institutes as well as serving in various positions in literary institutes. She published more than 80 books in Bengali: poetry, novels, short stories, plays, literary criticism, personal essays, travelogues, humour writing, translations and children's literature. She was awarded the Padma Shri in 2000 and the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1999.