Sen, apart from being a renowned poet, is also an award-winning novelist and short-story writer. For her works, she won the Sahitya Akademi award in 1999, followed by a Padma Shri in 2000. Her husband, Amartya Sen, had won the Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences in 1998. The couple got married back in 1959 and recently completed 60 years of their marriage.