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	She wrote stories in [[Hindi language\|Hindi]], publishing in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s.<ref name=pyara /> A collection of her stories, ''Alice Ekka Ki Kahaniyan'', edited by Vandna Tete, (Radhakrishna Prakashan, {{ISBN\|978-8183617918}}) was published posthumously in 2015.<ref name=pioneer />		She wrote stories in [[Hindi language\|Hindi]], publishing in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s.<ref name=pyara /> A collection of her stories, ''Alice Ekka Ki Kahaniyan'', edited by Vandna Tete, (Radhakrishna Prakashan, {{ISBN\|978-8183617918}}) was published posthumously in 2015.<ref name=pioneer />

			Her stories in the 1960s were published in the weekly magazine ''Adivasi Patrika''.<ref>{{Cite web\|last=Poyam\|first=Akash\|title=Ten voices from Adivasi literature\|url=https://caravanmagazine.in/books/reading-list-ten-voices-adivasi-literature\|access-date=2021-09-29\|website=The Caravan\|language=en}}</ref>

	She is described as "India's first female tribal storyteller", and the centenary of her birth was celebrated with a two-day conference, the "All India Tribal Women Writer's Meet", held in her home town of Ranchi.<ref name=Jharkhand />		She is described as "India's first female tribal storyteller", and the centenary of her birth was celebrated with a two-day conference, the "All India Tribal Women Writer's Meet", held in her home town of Ranchi.<ref name=Jharkhand />
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'''Alice Ekka''' (Hindi: एलिस एक्का) (8 September 1917 – 5 July 1978) was an Indian [[Adivasi]] writer known to be the first female storyteller from a tribal background.<ref name="pyara">{{cite web |title=Our Pioneers: Alice Ekka |url=http://www.kharia.in/pyara-master.html |publisher=Pyara Kerketta Foundation |accessdate=20 November 2018}}</ref><ref name="Jharkhand">{{cite news |title=All India Tribal Women Writer's Meet begins in Ranchi |url=http://jharkhandstatenews.com/article/grapevine/36/all-india-tribal-women-writer-s-meet-begins-in-ranchi/ |accessdate=20 November 2018 |work=Jharkhand State News |date=7 September 2017}}</ref><ref name="pioneer">{{cite news |title=Alice Ekka story collection unveiled |url=https://www.dailypioneer.com/2015/state-editions/alice-ekka-story-collection-unveiled.html |accessdate=20 November 2018 |work=The Pioneer |date=21 November 2018}}</ref>

Ekka was born in [[Ranchi]] on 8 September 1917, and was from the [[Munda people|Munda]] community.<ref name=pyara /> She was the first tribal woman in [[Jharkhand]] to graduate in English, in 1938 at the [[Scottish Church College]] in Calcutta.<ref name=Jharkhand />

She wrote stories in [[Hindi language|Hindi]], publishing in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s.<ref name=pyara /> A collection of her stories, ''Alice Ekka Ki Kahaniyan'', edited by Vandna Tete, (Radhakrishna Prakashan, {{ISBN|978-8183617918}}) was published posthumously in 2015.<ref name=pioneer />

She is described as "India's first female tribal storyteller", and the centenary of her birth was celebrated with a two-day conference, the "All India Tribal Women Writer's Meet", held in her home town of Ranchi.<ref name=Jharkhand />

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