Author profile
Mahasweta Devi (b.1926),is one of our foremost literary personalities, a social activist working for and with the dispossesed and marginalized communities in eastern India for years, a prolific and bestselling author in Bengali, of short fiction and novels, characterized by trenchant, powerful, satiric narrative.
Recipient of the Sahitya Akademi (1979) and the Jnanpith (1996) awards, amongst several other literary honours.