Maitreyi Devi

Maitreyi Devi (or Maitreyī Devī) (1 September 1914 – 4 February 1990) was an Indian poet and novelist. She is best known for her Sahitya Akademi Award-winning novel, Na Hanyate (It Does Not Die).
She studied in St. John's Diocesan Girls' Higher Secondary School, Calcutta (now Kolkata) and graduated from the Jogamaya Devi College, an affiliated undergraduate women's college of the historic University of Calcutta, in Kolkata.
She received Sahitya Akademi Award in the year 1976 for her novel Na Hanyate.