WRITER

Ashapurna Devi

1909 - 1995

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Ashapurna Devi (8 January 1909 – 12 July 1995), also Ashapoorna Devi or Ashapurna Debi, was a prominent Indian novelist and poet in Bengali. In 1976, she was awarded the Jnanpith Award and Padma Shri by the Government of India, D.Litt. by the Universities of Jabalpur, Rabindra Bharati, Burdwan and Jadavpur. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ashapurna Devi has received more than 210,290 page views. Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Ashapurna Devi is the 3,293rd most popular writer (down from 2,973rd in 2019), the 416th most popular biography from India (down from 353rd in 2019) and the 62nd most popular Indian Writer.

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  • 210k

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  • 58.65

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  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.24

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.50

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ashapurna Devi ranks 3,293 out of 7,302. Before her are Douglas Preston, Eugène Burnouf, Malak Hifni Nasif, Bernard Maris, Idries Shah, and Konstanty Ildefons Gałczyński. After her are Konstantin Mihailović, Roberto Arlt, Émile Faguet, Victor Segalen, Lucius Varius Rufus, and Nikolai Alexandrovich Morozov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, Ashapurna Devi ranks 172. Before her are Wang Zhen, Burl Ives, Spyros Markezinis, Hans Hotter, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., and Marion Dönhoff. After her are Pietro Arcari, Bernhard Grzimek, Régine Pernoud, Ivo Lapenna, Josef Košťálek, and Claude Cahen. Among people deceased in 1995, Ashapurna Devi ranks 147. Before her are Kukrit Pramoj, Burl Ives, Oles Honchar, John Brunner, Dany Robin, and Vladimir Ivashov. After her are Jesús Garay, Friz Freleng, Jüri Järvet, Willem Frederik Hermans, Ioannis Alevras, and Claudio Brook.

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In India

Among people born in India, Ashapurna Devi ranks 416 out of 1,861. Before her are Debendranath Tagore (1817), Jeetendra (1942), Vichitravirya (null), R. K. Narayan (1906), Idries Shah (1924), and Man Singh I (1550). After her are Prince Vijaya (-543), Jagat Gosain (1573), Sam Manekshaw (1914), Jai Singh II (1688), Ibn Warraq (1946), and Vaikom Muhammad Basheer (1908).

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Among WRITERS In India

Among writers born in India, Ashapurna Devi ranks 62. Before her are Maithili Sharan Gupt (1886), Sumitranandan Pant (1900), Shibli Nomani (1857), Suryakant Tripathi (1899), R. K. Narayan (1906), and Idries Shah (1924). After her are Ibn Warraq (1946), Vaikom Muhammad Basheer (1908), Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay (1898), Bharatendu Harishchandra (1850), Subhadra Kumari Chauhan (1904), and Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay (1894).

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