What is Maina Tudu?
{{infobox person | name = Maina Tudu | birth_date = 1984/85<ref name=a/> | image = File:Maina Tudu Receiving YUVA PURASKAR 2017 (cropped).jpg | birth_place = | death_date = | occupation = Writer, Housewife | nationality = [[India]]n | other_names = }} '''Maina Tudu''' is an Indian writer. She writes in the [[Santali language]]. She is a housewife from [[Odisha]].<ref name=a/> She won the [[Yuva Puraskar]] in 2017. ==Biography== Tudu graduated in Santali.<ref name=a>{{cite web |url=https://gatewaylitfest.com/4282-2/ |title=Maina Tudu |access-date=27 November 2019 |website=Gateway LitFest |date=8 December 2017 |archive-date=3 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190403063451/https://gatewaylitfest.com/4282-2/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> For her poetry ''Marsal Dahar'' she was awarded [[List of Yuva Puraskar winners for Santali|Yuva Puraskar]] in 2017.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sahitya-akademi.gov.in/awards/yuva_samman_suchi.jsp |title=YUVA PURASKAR (2011-2019) |website=Sahitya Akademi|access-date=27 November 2019 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/chandigarh/literary-award-for-24-young-writers/517725.html |title=Literary award for 24 young writers |website=The Tribune |access-date=27 November 2019 |date=23 December 2017 |archive-date=3 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190403063020/https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/chandigarh/literary-award-for-24-young-writers/517725.html |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.business-standard.com/article/news-ians/regional-poets-lead-sahitya-akademi-yuva-puraskar-117062300491_1.html |title=Regional poets lead Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar |newspaper=Business Standard India|access-date=27 November 2019|date=23 January 2017 }}</ref> Tudu also wrote ''Ol Chiki Ada Gaban''.<ref name=a/> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Tudu, Maina}} [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:1980s births]] [[Category:Indian writers]]