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Maharaj Kumari Binodini Devi ((ヒンディー語:महाराज कुमारी बिनोदिनी देवी); 6 February 1922 – 17 January 2011) was an Indian writer from Manipur, a Southeast Himalayan state in North-east India and a member of the erstwhile royal family of Manipur. She was notable for bridging the two worlds of ancient royalty and modern art. Born as a princess into a palace life which she lovingly recalled in a series of late essays, she made her name in the wider world as a novelist and a writer of short stories, essays, plays and award-winning screenplays, lyrics and ballet scripts. She received the Padma Shri in 1976, one of India's highest civilian awards, followed by Sahitya Akademi Award given by Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of letters) in 1979 for her novel ''Boro Saheb Ongbi Sanatombi'' (The Princess and the Political Agent) based on the true life story of a Manipuri princess, daughter of Maharaj Surchandra Singh. However, she returned the Padma Shri〔http://e-pao.net/GP.asp?src=1..180111.jan11〕 to protest the alleged rape and killing of Thangjam Manorama by 17 Assam Rifles personnel in 2004.〔 〕 M. K. Binodini Devi wrote under the single name of Binodini. Her screenplays were made into award-winning feature films, directed by her long-time collaborator director Aribam Syam Sharma, such as ''My Son, My Precious'', 1982; ''The Chosen One'' (1990), that have also been screened in the London Film Festival as well as the Museum of Modern Art, and Cannes, Toronto and Locarno Film Festivals. Her wildlife and environment themed script for a modern ballet was made into Sangai, Dancing Deer of Manipur, a performance film that won the British Film Institute's Outstanding Film of the Year Award in 1984. She died at 8.04 pm at her Yaiskul Police Lane residence in Imphal on 17 January 2011. She is survived by her two sons. This article seems to be a duplicate of another (article ) ==Early life and family== Devi, also known as Princess Wangolsana, was born on 6 February 1922 in Manipur. She is the youngest among the five daughters of Churachand Singh and Dhanamanjuri Devi, king and queen of Manipur.〔 In 1950. She married L. Nanda Babu Roy, a surgeon, with whom she had two sons. Churachand, who ruled Manipur from 1891 till 1941, was the first Western-educated monarch of Manipur. His wife Dhanamanjuri, played a major role in giving modern education to her children, assigning her English companion, Mrs. E. M. Jolly, as her daughters' first English teacher. M. K. Binodini Devi got her formal education at Pine Mount School, Shillong; Tamphasana Girls High School, Imphal; St Mary's College, Shillong; Vidyasagar College, West Bengal; and studied art at Tagore's Viswa Bharati University in Santiniketan. She was Manipur's first female graduate. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「M. K. Binodini Devi」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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