Bidyut Prabha Devi

Bidyut Prabha Devi (12 July 1926 – 28 January 1977) was an Odia poet from India. She is recognized as one of the best female poets in Odia literature.
Bidyut Prabha started writing poems from 1940 and subsequently her poems were published in literary magazines, with her elder sister Basanti who had written some poems. She published her first collection of poems Sabita in 1944, which has mostly patriotic poems relating to the glory and grandeur of the land of Orissa.
Though educated in urban area, her poems reflects memory of rural life of her childhood. Considerably influenced by two Odia poets, Nanda Kishore Bal and Kunja Bihari Das, her poems deal with the problem of women that exist in an age-old conservative society. She also wrote plays and some children's literature.[2][3] Her complete works of poems was published as Bidyutprabha Sanchayan in 1957.
Collection of poems

• Sabita (1947)
• Utkal Saraswata Prativa (1947)
• Kanakanjali (1948)
• Marichika (1948)
• Bihayasi (1949)
• Bandenika (1950)
• Swapnadeep (1951)
• Jhara Siuli (1957)
• Jahaku Jie (1957)