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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 174,194 page views. Her biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Ashapurna Devi is the 2,984th most popular writer (up from 3,975th in 2019), the 356th most popular biography from India (up from 422nd in 2019) and the 59th most popular Indian Writer.

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  • 18

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  • 3.26

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  • 2.25

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ashapurna Devi ranks 2,984 out of 5,755. Before her are Heo Nanseolheon, Douglas Preston, Josef Škvorecký, Kamalaśīla, Daniel Guérin, and Betty Mahmoody. After her are Manès Sperber, Maria Dąbrowska, Almudena Grandes, Mikhail Prishvin, Kir Bulychev, and Ella Maillart.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, Ashapurna Devi ranks 155. Before her are Claude Cahen, Sutan Sjahrir, Henri Alekan, Leyla Mammadbeyova, Reuven Shiloah, and Hans Hotter. After her are Leone Ginzburg, Guillermo Gorostiza, Wang Zhen, Max Aub, Gabrielle Roy, and Ivan Bek. Among people deceased in 1995, Ashapurna Devi ranks 131. Before her are Madge Sinclair, Dmitri Shepilov, James Samuel Coleman, Erik Nilsson, Osvaldo Pugliese, and John Brunner. After her are Willem Frederik Hermans, Nancy Kelly, Luis Regueiro, Savely Kramarov, Claudio Brook, and Dany Robin.

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In India

Among people born in India, Ashapurna Devi ranks 356 out of 1,493. Before her are Bhalchandra Nemade (1938), Vishwanath Pratap Singh (1931), Jacques Lauriston (1768), Shashi Kapoor (1938), Kishore Kumar (1929), and Rajesh Khanna (1942). After her are Sukhdev Thapar (1907), Sachchidananda Vatsyayan (1911), Kiran Bedi (1949), Prakash Raj (1965), Kumārila Bhaṭṭa (700), and Vichitravirya (null).

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Among WRITERS In India

Among writers born in India, Ashapurna Devi ranks 59. Before her are Sumitranandan Pant (1900), Ramdhari Singh Dinkar (1908), K. Shivaram Karanth (1902), U. R. Ananthamurthy (1932), Vaikom Muhammad Basheer (1908), and Bhalchandra Nemade (1938). After her are Sachchidananda Vatsyayan (1911), Subhadra Kumari Chauhan (1904), R. K. Narayan (1906), Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay (1894), Shibli Nomani (1857), and Ibn Warraq (1946).

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