Balwant Gargi
Balwant Gargi was an Indian Punjabi language dramatist, theatre director, novelist, short story writer, and academic. On 4 December 1916, in Canal House in Sehna, Barnala (Punjab), Balwant Gargi was born in a house near the Sirhind Canal, famous for being the spot where Razia Sultan was imprisoned. The...
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Surjit Patar
Surjit Patar (Surjit Hundal) was an Indian Punjabi language writer and poet from Punjab. His poems enjoy immense popularity with the general public and have won high acclaim from critics. Patar hailed from the village of Pattar (Punjabi: ਪੱਤੜ) Kalan in Jalandhar district from which he got his surname. His...
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Narinder Singh Kapoor
Narinder Singh Kapoor is an Indian writer from Punjab. His writings are about social, cultural and psychological issues. He lives in Patiala, Punjab. Kapoor was born in the village of Dera Khalsa, in Rawalpindi District (formerly in British India, now Pakistan.) His family settled in Patiala, after staying at a...
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Gurdial Singh
Gurdial Singh was an Indian writer and novelist who wrote in Punjabi. He started his literary career in 1957 with a short story, “Bhaganwale.” He became known as a novelist when he published the novel Marhi Da Deeva in 1964. The novel was later adapted into the Punjabi film...
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Dalip Kaur Tiwana
Dalip Kaur Tiwana was born on 4 May 1935 in the village of Rabbon in the Ludhiana district of Punjab in a well-to-do land-owning family in British India. She was educated at Patiala, where her uncle, Sardar Sahib Tara Singh Sidhu was Inspector General of Prisons. She had a...
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Amrita Pritam
Amrita Pritam 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...
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Shiv Kumar Batalvi
Shiv Kumar Batalvi was a Punjabi poet, writer and playwright of the Punjabi language. He was most known for his romantic poetry, noted for its heightened passion, pathos, separation and lover’s agony, due to that he was also called Birha Da Sultan. He is also called ‘Keats of Punjab’. He...
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