Kalpanakumari Devi
{{Short description|Indian novelist and poet}}
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Kalpanakumari Devi (1936 – 28 August 2017) was an Indian novelist and poet in the Odia language. She won the 2011 Sahitya Akademi Award for Odia literature.
Biography
Kalpanakumari Devi (also spelled Kalpana Kumari Devi or Debi) was born in Odisha in 1936. She moved to Kolkata in 1958.{{cite news|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1120215/jsp/odisha/story_15136285.jsp#.Vn5k5RGl2FU|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150922205125/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1120215/jsp/odisha/story_15136285.jsp#.Vn5k5RGl2FU|url-status=dead|archive-date=22 September 2015|title=Court clears way, author gets award: Kalpana Kumari Devi gets top literarary honour for Achinha Basabhumi|author=Lalmohan Patnaik|date=14 February 2012|newspaper=The Telegraph (Calcutta)}}
Her first novel, Kabi, was published in 1954. Her observations on the social changes in the country were recognised.{{cite book|title=Contemporary Indian Literature|volume=13|author=S. L. Shastry|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iGzVAAAAMAAJ&q=%22kalpana+kumari+devi%22|page=18|date=1973}}
She was awarded the 2011 Sahitya Akademi Award for Odia literature for her novel Achinha Basabhumi.
She was married to the Odia writer Kanduri Charan Das, who died in 2014. Their daughter Shabarni Das is an editor of a Bengali journal, Prathama.{{cite news|newspaper=The Telegraph|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1140616/jsp/odisha/story_18516801.jsp#.Vn5nERGl2FU|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304205556/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1140616/jsp/odisha/story_18516801.jsp#.Vn5nERGl2FU|url-status=dead|archive-date=4 March 2016|title=Life of a legend|author=Bibhuti Patnaik|date=16 June 2014}}
Kalpanakumari Devi died in Kolkata on 28 August 2017.{{Cite web |url=http://sambad.in/news/state/73435.html |title=ବିଶିଷ୍ଟ ସାହିତ୍ୟିକା କଳ୍ପନାକୁମାରୀ ଦେବୀଙ୍କ ପରଲୋକ |date=2017-08-29 |website=sambad.in |language=or |access-date=29 August 2017 |archive-date=29 August 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170829162544/http://sambad.in/news/state/73435.html |url-status=dead }}
Controversy
After Kalpanakumari Devi's Achinha Basabhumi was nominated for the Sahitya Akademi award, several Odia litterateurs protested against it,{{cite news|newspaper=The Telegraph|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1111231/jsp/odisha/story_14945271.jsp#.Vn8gMRGl2FU|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160105053249/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1111231/jsp/odisha/story_14945271.jsp#.Vn8gMRGl2FU|url-status=dead|archive-date=5 January 2016|author=Namita Panda|date=31 December 2011|title=Furore over award to Kalpanakumari}} citing procedural irregularities as well critical differences with the choice. Upon the announcement of the award to the author, Barendra Krushna Dhal, a member of the Sahitya Akademi's advisory board resigned in protest. Sricharan Pratap Kanishka, an Odia writer, filed a public interest litigation with the Orissa High Court in January 2012 against the award, leading to an interim stay of the presentation ceremony. His complaint was that, in order to be eligible for the award, the book should have been published between 2007 and 2009, and he accused the book's publisher of having back-dated its publication date to 2009, whereas, he claimed, it was published in 2010.{{cite news|newspaper=New Indian Express|url=http://www.newindianexpress.com/states/odisha/article319471.ece|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304204542/http://www.newindianexpress.com/states/odisha/article319471.ece|url-status=dead|archive-date=4 March 2016|date=14 February 2012|title=HC Judgment on Odia Novel Today}}{{cite news|newspaper=The Sunday Indian|url=http://www.thesundayindian.com/en/story/odia-novel-not-odia-enough/27/28148/|date=15 January 2012|author=Dhrutikam Mohanty|title=Odia novel not Odia enough|access-date=26 December 2015|archive-date=19 April 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120419064630/http://www.thesundayindian.com/en/story/odia-novel-not-odia-enough/27/28148/|url-status=dead}}
The litigation was rejected by the high court on 14 February 2012, and Kalpanakumari Devi received the award.
Selected works
- {{cite book|title=Kabi|location=Calcutta|date=1954}}
- {{cite book|title=Nastachanda|location=Calcutta|publisher=Pranakrsna Dasa|date=1958}}
- {{cite book|title=Srusti o Pralaya|location=Calcutta|publisher=Pranakrsna Dasa|date=1959}}
- {{cite book|title=Se prema nitrna|location=Calcutta|publisher=Rajasri Prakasani|date=1960}}
- {{cite book|title=Bana ketakī|publisher=Oḍiśā jagannātha kampānī|date=1963}}
- {{cite book|title=Dinantara ranga|location=Calcutta|publisher=Rajasri Prakasani|date=1967}}
- {{cite book|title=Sunila sihara|location=Calcutta|publisher=Rajasri Prakasani|date=1968}}
- {{cite book|title=Achinha Basabhumi|publisher=Kahani|date=2009}}
References
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{{Sahitya Akademi Award For Odia}}
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Category:Indian women novelists
Category:Recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Award in Odia
Category:20th-century Indian poets
Category:Women writers from Odisha
Category:Odia-language novelists
Category:20th-century Indian novelists
Category:20th-century Indian women writers
Category:Novelists from Odisha
Category:21st-century Indian novelists