Maitreyi Devi

Maitreyi Devi was born on 1 September 1914. She was the daughter of philosopher Surendranath Dasgupta and protégée of poet Rabindranath Tagore. She was an Indian poet and novelist. She is best known for her Sahitya Akademi Award-winning novel, Na Hanyate

She studied at 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. She published her first book of poetry in 1930, at age 16, with a preface by Tagore.

She received Sahitya Akademi Award in the year 1976 for her novel Na Hanyate.