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Nirmala Devi was born in 1907.He is a well-known odia poet. Though not formally educated, she read a lot from ancient and mediaeval literature. After marriage in 1920, she began writing poems, stories etc., some of which appeared mostly in two odia periodicals, the Baruni (1934) and the Jhankar (1948). She contributed to odia literature some of the finest love-lyrics through her poetry collections, Dinante (At the End of the Day, 1953) and Simante (At the End of the Life, 1962). A communion of nature and human soul can also be traced in her poems. Most of her writings’ are still unpublished. She was honoured and felicitated by Prajatantra Prachar Samiti, Cuttack in 1958, by odisha Sahitya Akademy in 1970 and by a host of other educational and cultural organisations.

Odia Books By Nirmala Devi

Dinante
Simante