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The other poets who contributed significantly to the growth of modern Punjabi poetry in the initial years include Amrita Pritam, Harbhajan Singh and Shiv Kumar Batalvi. Mohan Singh has been hailed as the greatest Punjabi poet of the 20th century [ 10 ] He is hailed by many modern artists including Hadiqa Kiani who refers to him, and recites his ...
Sufi Poets of the Punjab Pakistan (Their Thought and Contribution) Prof M Ashraf Chaudhary. National Book Foundation Islamabad. ISBN 978-969-37-0313-9 "Great Sufi Poets of The Punjab" by R. M. Chopra, (1999), Iran Society, Calcutta.
Sahib Singh (1892–1977); Sohan Singh Seetal (1909-1998) Poet, Novelist, historian, Authored more than 60 books; Santokh Singh Dhir (1920–2010); Giani Sant Singh Maskeen (1934–2005)
Shiv Kumar Batalvi was born on 23 July 1936 (though a few documents related to him state 8 October 1937) in the village Bara Pind Lohtian in the Shakargarh Tehsil of Gurdaspur District (now in Narowal District of Punjab, Pakistan) into a Punjabi Hindu Brahmin family to father, Pandit Krishan Gopal Sharma, the village tehsildar in the revenue department, and mother, Shanti Devi, a housewife.
The Punjabi literary tradition is popularly seen to commence with Baba Farid (1173–1266), [9] whose Sufi poetry was compiled after his death in the Adi Granth. Amir Khusrau (1253 – 1325), a prominent Indo-Persian poet, is also known to have written a vaar in the Punjabi language.
Jayanta Mahapatra (born 1928), internationally acclaimed poet, winner of Padma Shri and first ever Sahitya Akademi Award for English poetry; Jeet Thayil (born 1959), poet, novelist, editor, winner of Sahitya Akademi Award and first Indian to win DSC Prize; Kamala Das also known as "Kamala Suraiya" (born 1934), writer and poet in English and ...
Rana Nayar's critical works on poetry include "Edward Albee: Towards a Typology of Relationships" published in 2003 by Prestige Publishers. His other critical works which are forthcoming include "Mediations: Self & Society" , which is a collection of essays on Indian history, society and culture, and "Third World Narrative : Theory & Practice" .
I English translations of five of his poems were published in Modern Poetry in Translation, Third Series Number Eighteen, Transitions, in 2012. II An English translation by Nirupama Dutt of his autobiography, Dastaan , along with his 20 poems, has been published as: Poet of the Revolution: The Memoirs and Poems of Lal Singh Dil (Viking Penguin ...