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Manmohan Bawa (Punjabi: ਮਨਮੋਹਨ ਬਾਵਾ;) [1] is a writer, painter and a cartographer from Punjab and Himachal Pradesh, India. He has written novels, anthologies of short stories, travelogues, travel guides in addition to publishing trekking maps of some Himalayan regions.
Waryam Singh Sandhu (born 10 September 1945) is an Indian author of short stories. In 2000, he was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award for his short story collection Chauthi koot . [ 1 ] Although he writes in Punjabi , [ 2 ] his works have been translated into Hindi , Bengali , Urdu and English .
Muhammad Afzal Ahsan Randhawa (Punjabi and Urdu: محمد افضل احسن رندھاوا September 1937 – 18 September 2017) was a Pakistani Punjabi language writer, poet, translator, playwright and a politician. [2] He authored several short stories and novels in the Punjabi language including Sooraj Grehan and Doaba. [3]
Sohni Mahiwal [a] (Punjabi: [soː(ɦ)ɳiː məɦĩʋaːl]) or Suhni Mehar [b] is a traditional Punjabi–Sindhi folk tragedy. Set in central Sindh or northern Punjab, depending upon the version of the tragedy, the folktale depicts the separation of two lovers and their tragic demise. In Sindh, it is one of the seven popular tragic romances of ...
The novels, short stories and poetry of Amrita Pritam (1919–2005) highlighted, among other themes, the experience of women, and the Partition of India. Punjabi poetry during the British Raj moreover began to explore more the experiences of the common man and the poor through the work of Puran Singh (1881–1931).
Jaswant Singh Kanwal (27 June 1919 – 1 February 2020) was an Indian novelist, short story writer and essayist of the Punjabi language. He was born in the village of Dhudike, Moga District, Punjab, India. [1] As a young teenager he left school and went to Malaya. It was there that he first got interested in literature.
Heer Ranjha [a] (Punjabi: [ɦiɾ ɾaːnd͡ʒ(ʱ)aː]) is a traditional Punjabi folk tragedy with many historic poetic narrations; [1] with the first one penned by Damodar Gulati in 1600s, on the preexisting oral legend; and the most famous one, Heer, written by Waris Shah in 1766, in the form of an epic.
Veena Verma (Punjabi: ਵੀਨਾ ਵਰਮਾ; born 2 September 1960) is a UK-based Punjabi short-story writer [1] [2] and poet from Punjab, India. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Early life