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'''Nirupama Devi''' ({{lang-bn|নিরুপমা দেবী}}) (7 May 1883 – 7 January 1951)<ref>{{cite book|title=Women Writing in India: The twentieth century|year=1993|publisher=Feminist Press at CUNY|isbn=9781558610293|page=106|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OjZYf9Xf9bcC&pg=PA106&lpg=PA106&dq=Nirupama+Devi&source=bl&ots=3RP8YPRm0i&sig=PRbhWKixXAsPDvoRMRIn5a6wXNw&hl=en&sa=X&ei=TEBCU5GwC4WNrQfgsYGoCw&ved=0CFcQ6AEwCTgK#v=onepage&q=Nirupama%20Devi&f=false}}</ref> was a fiction writer from [[Berhampore, India|Berhampore]] in [[Murshidabad district]]. Her literary pseudonym was ''Srimati Devi''.

==Early life and education==
Nirupama Devi's father was Nafar Chandra Bhatta who was a judicial employee. She was educated at home.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Devi,_Nirupama|title=Devi, Nirupama - Banglapedia|website=en.banglapedia.org|language=en|access-date=2017-11-08}}</ref>

==Critical reception==
In 2013, Swapna Dutta writes for ''[[The Hindu]]'' that Nirupama Devi was an author who "wrote fearlessly about the social ills of the time: polygamy, forced marriages, dowry-related torture, and the heartbreak of widowhood or of being discarded by the husband for no fault of theirs," "wrote about society’s ruthless attitude to widows who dared to fall in love and, most of all, the utter helplessness of women in a male-dominated world," and "told the stories from a woman's perspective."<ref name="Dutta 2013">{{cite news |last1=Dutta |first1=Swapna |title=The home and the world |url=https://www.thehindu.com/books/books-authors/the-home-and-the-world/article4985438.ece |access-date=21 June 2021 |work=[[The Hindu]] |date=August 3, 2013}}</ref>

==Works==
Uchchhrinkhal was her first novel. Her other works include:
* Annapurnar Mandir (1913), a [[Annapurnar Mandir|same name]] film was made by [[Naresh Mitra]] in 1954.
* Didi (1915)<ref name="Dutta 2013"/><ref>{{cite book|title=Women Writing in India: 600 B.C. to the early twentieth century|year=1991|publisher=Feminist Press at CUNY|isbn=9781558610279|page=[https://archive.org/details/womenwritinginin00thar/page/363 363]|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/womenwritinginin00thar}}</ref>
* Aleya (1917)
* Bidhilipi (1919)<ref name="Dutta 2013"/>
* Shyamali (1919)<ref name="Dutta 2013"/>
* Bandhu (1921)
* Amar Diary (1927)
* Yugantarer Katha (1940)
* Anukarsa (1941)<ref name="Dutta 2013"/>

==Awards and honours==
Nirupama Devi received the 'Bhubanmohini Gold Medal' in 1938 and 'Jagattarini Gold Medal' in 1943 from the [[University of Calcutta]] in recognition of her contribution to literature.

==References==
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