| 词条 | Maitreyi Devi |
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| name = Maitreyi Devi | image = MaitreyiDeviPic.jpg | birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1914|9|1}} | birth_place = Chittagong Chattagram, British Raj, now Bangladesh | death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1990|02|04|1914|9|1}} | occupation = Poet, Novelist | spouse = Dr. M.M. Sen | children = 2 | parents = Surendranath Dasgupta (Father) Himani Madhuri Rai (Mother) | website = }} Maitreyi Devi (or Maitreyī Devī) (1 September 1914 – 4 February 1990) was a Bengali-born Indian poet and novelist. Life{{expand section|date=April 2015}}Devi was born in 1914, She was the daughter of philosopher Surendranath Dasgupta and protegée of poet Rabindranath Tagore. She got married to Quinologist Dr. M.M. Sen[1] when she was 20 and he was 34. They had 2 children together. She was the founder of the Council for the Promotion of Communal Harmony in 1964, and vice-president of the All-India Women’s Coordinating Council. Her first book of verse appeared when she was sixteen, with a preface by Rabindranath Tagore. She wrote Rabindranath—the man behind his poetry.[2] Apart from being a writer, she had also set up an Orphanage for needy children later in her life. She was also the basis for the main character in Romanian writer Mircea Eliade's 1933 novel Bengal Nights. Bengal Nights is a semi-autobiographical piece of literature based around the time Eliade spent in Calcutta at Surendranath Dasgupta, Maitreyi Devi's father's house.The book explores in detail, Eliad's affair with Maitreyi Devi and their 'sexual relations' and then eventually being kicked out of Das' house after discovering the affair between him and Maitreyi Devi. Devi was not aware of the book and the name of main character being Maitreyi while Eliad's name was changed to Allan. Her 1974 novel, Na Hanyate (English title, It Does Not Die: A Romance) , was written as a response to Bengal Nights, and Maitreyi Devi described the romance and the cultural tensions resulted from it. Given the cultural constraints, she denies claims of a sexual affair between her and Eliade during the latter's sojourn in British India.[3][4] The book has been translated into various European languages including Eliade's mother tongue Romanian. In 1938 and 1939 she invited Rabindranath Tagore to stay in her and her husband's house in Mungpoo near Kalimpong, which later became the Rabindra Museum.[5] EducationShe 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.[6] AwardsShe received Sahitya Akademi Award in the year 1976 for her novel Na Hanyate. Publications
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References1. ^The Better India. This Little Known Himalayan Village Was the Much-Loved Summer Retreat of Rabindranath Tagore (19 July 2016). {{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Devi, Maitreyi}}2. ^{{cite book|last=Devi|first=Maitreyi|title=Rabindranath--the man behind his poetry|year=1973|publisher=Sudhir Das at Nabajatak Printers|url=https://books.google.com/books/about/Rabindranath_the_man_behind_his_poetry.html?id=dp1jAAAAMAAJ&redir_esc=y}} 3. ^Firdaus Azim, The Journal of Asian Studies, Association for Asian Studies, Vol. 55, 1996, pp. 1035-103 4. ^ A Terrible Hurt: The Untold Story behind the Publishing of Maitreyi Devi, by Ginu Kamani, accessed 30 January 2010 5. ^Mungpoo.org. Mungpoo and Kabi Guru Rabindranath Tagore, Museum. 6. ^History of the College 7. ^{{Cite book|title=Tagore by Fireside|last=Devi|first=Maitreyi|publisher=|year=|isbn=8171677258|location=|pages=}} 8. ^{{Cite book|title=It Does Not Die: A Romance|last=Devi|first=Maitreyi|publisher=|year=|location=|pages=}} 18 : Bengali novelists|Bengali female poets|Rabindranath Tagore|1914 births|1990 deaths|Jogamaya Devi College alumni|University of Calcutta alumni|Indian women novelists|Women writers from West Bengal|20th-century Indian poets|20th-century Bangladeshi poets|People from Chittagong|Indian women poets|Poets from West Bengal|20th-century Indian novelists|Recipients of the Padma Shri in literature & education|20th-century Indian women writers|Novelists from West Bengal |
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