Nandini Satpathy (Oriya: ?????? ?????)(9 June 1931 in Cuttack – 4 August 2006 in Bhubaneswar), Indian politician and author. She is the former Chief Minister of Orissa.

Nandini Satpathy came from a highly respected and literary family.She was the eldest daughter of Padmabhushan Kalindi Charan Panigrahi, author of MATIRA MANISA (legendary Oriya book). Her uncle Bhagabati Charan Panigrahi established the Communist Party in Orissa . Her grandfather Swapneswar Panigrahi was a socialist and freedom fighter.



She was married to Devendra Satpathy who was twice the Member of Parliament from Dhenkanal. First from the Congress party and later from the Bharatiya Lok Dal. Her son Tathagata Satpathy is a sitting Biju Janata Dal MP from Dhenkanal.

She was a well known Oriya writer and her work has been translated and published in a number of languages. In 1998, she was given the prestigious Sahitya Bharati Samman Award, for her outstanding contribution to Oriya literature. Her last major work was the translation of Taslima Nasreen's Lajja into Oriya.

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