Pritam, Amrita Kaur

Pritam, Amrita Kaur
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      Punjabi writer and poet (b. Aug. 31, 1919, Gujranwala, British India [now in Pakistan]—d. Oct. 31, 2005, New Delhi, India), wrote increasingly more feminist poems and other works in which she exposed the suffering of oppressed women and the violence and misery endured by Punjabis during the Partition (1947) of India. Pritam was born into a Sikh family and published her first collection of stories at age 16. During a literary career of more than 60 years, she authored (in Hindi as well as Punjabi) some 24 novels, 23 volumes of poetry, and 15 short-story collections. She was the first woman to receive the Sahitya Akademi Award and the first Punjabi woman to be given the Padma Shri Award. In 1981 Pritam was presented with the Jnanpith Award, India's highest literary award. Her best-known works included the novel Pinjar (1950; “The Skeleton”), which in 2003 was made into a Bollywood film of the same name, and the poem Aaj aakhaan Waris Shah noo (“Ode to Waris Shah”).

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