Amrita Pritam
Amrita Pritam (; 31 August 1919 – 31 October 2005) was an Indian novelist, essayist and poet, who wrote in Punjabi and Hindi. A prominent figure in Punjabi literature, she is the recipient of the 1956 Sahitya Akademi Award. Her body of work comprised over 100 books of poetry, fiction, biographies, essays, a collection of Punjabi folk songs and an autobiography that were all translated into several Indian and foreign languages.Pritam is best remembered for her poignant poem, ''Ajj aakhaan Waris Shah nu'' (Today I invoke Waris Shah – "Ode to Waris Shah"), an elegy to the 18th-century Punjabi poet, and an expression of her anguish over massacres during the partition of India. As a novelist, her most noted work was ''Pinjar'' ("The Skeleton", 1950), in which she created her memorable character, ''Puro'', an epitome of violence against women, loss of humanity and ultimate surrender to existential fate; the novel was made into an award-winning film, ''Pinjar'' (2003).
When British India was partitioned into the independent states of India and Pakistan in 1947, she migrated from Lahore to India, though she remained equally popular in Pakistan throughout her life, as compared to her contemporaries like Mohan Singh and Shiv Kumar Batalvi.
Pritam's magnum opus, the long poem ''Sunehade'', won her the 1956 Sahitya Akademi Award, making her the first and the only woman to have been given the award for a work in Punjabi. She received the Jnanpith Award, one of India's highest literary awards, in 1982 for ''Kagaz Te Canvas'' ("The Paper and the Canvas"). She was awarded the Padma Shri in 1969, and the Padma Vibhushan, India's second highest civilian award, in 2004. In that same year she was honoured with India's highest literary award given by the Sahitya Akademi (India's Academy of Letters), the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship, awarded to ''the "immortals of literature"'' for lifetime achievement. Provided by Wikipedia
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Published 1943Prīta Nagara : Prīta Laṛī Pabalisharaza, 1943.109 p. ; 19 cm. -
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Published 1972[Nawīṃ Dillī] Nāgamaṇī Prakāshana [1972]117 p. illus. 19 cm. -
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Published 1980Nawīṃ Dillī : Nāgamaṇī Prakāshana, 1980.143 p. : ill. ; 18 cm. -
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Published 1978Nawīṃ Dillī : Nāgamaṇī Prakāshana, 1978.143 p. ; 19 cm. -
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Published 1964Bombay : Jaico Pub. House, 1964.105 p. ; 18 cm. -
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Published 1978Calcutta : United Writers, c1978.154 p. ; 19 cm. -
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Published 1944Lāhaura : Lāhaura Buka Shāpa, [1944]112 p. ; 19 cm. -
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Published 1979New Delhi : Vision Books, 1979.171 p. ; 19 cm. -
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Published 1971[1971]160 p. 19 cm. -
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Published 1942[Lahore] : Ammrita Kaura, 1942.143 p. ; 19 cm. -
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Published 1979Nawīṃ Dillī : Nāgamaṇī Prakāshana, 1979.111 p. ; 19 cm. -
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Published 1977Naī Dillī : Sarasvatī Vihāra, 1977.148 p. : ill. ; 19 cm. -
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Published 1968Dillī : Nawayuga Pabalisharaza, 1968.127 p. ; 18 cm. -
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Published 1979Dillī : Rājapāla, 1979.158 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 19 cm. -
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Published 1962[1962]165 p. illus. 19 cm. -
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Published 1965[1965]157 p. 18 cm. -
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Published 1971Nawīṃ Dillī, Nāgamaṇī Prakāshana [1971]128 p. illus. 19 cm. -
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Published 1975Nawīṃ Dillī : Nāgamaṇī Prakāshana, [1975?]171 p. : ill. ; 19 cm. -
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Published 1983Delhi : Raj Deep Publication, 1983.154 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm. -
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Published 1977Nawīṃ Dillī : Nāgamaṇī Prakāshana, 1977.145 p. ; 19 cm.