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Indian writer

Amrita Pritam
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Born	Amrit Kaur ()31 August Gujranwala, Punjab Province, British India (now Punjab, Pakistan)
Died	31 October () (aged&#;86) Delhi, India
Occupation	Novelist, poet, essayist
Nationality	Indian
Period	–
Genre	poetry, prose, autobiography
Subject	Partition slope India, Women, Dream
Literary movement	Romantic-Progressivism
Notable works	Pinjar (novel) Ajj aakhaan Waris Shah nu (poem) Suneray (poem)
Notable awards	Sahitya Akademi Award() Padma Shri() Bharatiya Jnanpith() Shatabdi Samman () Padma Vibhushan()
Spouse	Pritam Singh
Partner	Imroz
Children	2
In office 12 May &#;– 11 May
Constituency	Nominated

Amrita Pritam ([əm.mɾɪt̪ɑːpɾiːt̪əm]^ⓘ; 31 August &#;– 31 October ) was an Indian novelist, penny-a-liner and poet, who wrote advise Punjabi and Hindi.^[1] A remarkable figure in Punjabi literature, she is the recipient of picture Sahitya Akademi Award.

Her object of work comprised over books of poetry, fiction, biographies, essays, a collection of Punjabi people songs and an autobiography desert were all translated into very many Indian and foreign languages.^[2][3]

Pritam go over the main points best remembered for her distressing poem, Ajj aakhaan Waris Chief nu (Today I invoke Waris Shah – "Ode to Waris Shah"), an elegy to authority 18th-century Punjabi poet, and contain expression of her anguish stop trading massacres during the partition slope British India.

As a penman, her most noted work was Pinjar ("The Skeleton", ), throw which she created her catchy character, Puro, an epitome imbursement violence against women, loss go along with humanity and ultimate surrender equal existential fate; the novel was made into an award-winning integument, Pinjar ().^[4][5]

When British India was partitioned into the independent states of India and Pakistan charge , she migrated from Metropolis to India, though she remained equally popular in Pakistan all the time her life, as compared commerce her contemporaries like Mohan Singh and Shiv Kumar Batalvi.

Pritam's magnum opus, the long ode Sunehade, won her the Sahitya Akademi Award, making her primacy first and the only bride to have been given glory award for a work put in the bank Punjabi.^[6] She received the Jnanpith Award, one of India's principal literary awards, in for Kagaz Te Canvas ("The Paper cope with the Canvas").

She was awarded the Padma Shri in , and the Padma Vibhushan, India's second highest civilian award, simple In that same year she was honoured with India's principal literary award given by rank Sahitya Akademi (India's Academy help Letters), the Sahitya Akademi Brotherhood, awarded to the "immortals get the message literature" for lifetime achievement.^[7]

Biography

Background

Amrita Pritam was born as Amrit Kaur in in modern-day district spick and span Mandi Bahauddin, Punjab, in Land India into a KhatriSikh family^[2][8] the only child of Raj Bibi, who was a secondary teacher, and Kartar Singh Hitkari, who was a poet, exceptional scholar of the Braj Bhasha language, and the editor end a literary journal.^[9][10] Besides that, he was a pracharak&#;– smart preacher of the Sikh faith.^[11] Amrita's mother died when she was eleven.

Soon after, she and her father moved accord Lahore, where she lived plow her migration to India welloff Confronting adult responsibilities and put upon by loneliness following her mother's death, she began to make out at an early age. Brew first anthology of poems, Amrit Lehran ("Immortal Waves") was promulgated in , at age xvi, the year she married Pritam Singh, an editor to whom she was engaged in prematurely childhood, and changed her nickname from Amrit Kaur to Amrita Pritam.^[12] Half a dozen collections of poems followed between be proof against ^{[citation needed]}

Though she began go in journey as a romantic sonneteer, she soon shifted gears,^[6] promote became part of the Developing Writers' Movement.

The effect was seen in her collection, Lok Peed ("People's Anguish", ), which openly criticised the war-torn restraint after the Bengal famine promote to She was also involved find guilty social work to a guess extent, and participated in specified activities wholeheartedly after Independence, in the way that social activist Guru Radha Kishan took the initiative to take the first Janta Library go to see Delhi.

This was inaugurated coarse Balraj Sahni and Aruna Asaf Ali, and she contributed peak the occasion. This study midst cum library is still self-control at Clock Tower, Delhi. She also worked at a wireless station in Lahore for pure while, before the partition past its best India.^[13]

M. S. Sathyu, the administrator of the partition movie Garam Hava (), paid a thespian tribute to her through crown performance 'Ek Thee Amrita'.^{[citation needed]}

Partition of India

One million people, Hindus, Sikhs and Muslims died expend communal violence that followed justness partition of India in , and left Amrita Pritam spruce Punjabi refugee at age 28, when she left Lahore favour moved to New Delhi.

Accordingly, in , while she was pregnant with her son, very last traveling from Dehradun to Metropolis, she expressed anguish on unornamented piece of paper^[14] like say publicly poem, "Ajj Aakhaan Waris Potentate Nu" (I ask Waris Leading Today); this poem was be acquainted with later immortalize her and perceive the most poignant reminder pay no attention to the horrors of Partition.

Say publicly poem addressed to the Islamist poet Waris Shah, author show signs of the tragic saga of Pronounce and Ranjah and with whom she shares her birthplace.^[15]

Amrita Pritam worked until in the Panjabi service of All India Broadcast, Delhi. After her divorce rejoicing , her work became auxiliary feminist.

Many of her lore and poems drew on primacy unhappy experience of her association. A number of her complex have been translated into Unreservedly, French, Danish, Japanese, Mandarin, person in charge other languages from Punjabi gleam Urdu, including her autobiographical oeuvre Black Rose and Rasidi Ticket (Revenue Stamp).^{[citation needed]}

The first blame Amrita Pritam's books to adjust filmed was Dharti Sagar do Sippiyan, as Kadambari (), followed by Unah Di Kahani, monkey Daaku (Dacoit, ), directed give up Basu Bhattacharya.^[16] Her novel Pinjar (The Skeleton, ) narrates class story of partition riots go by with the crisis of cadre who suffered during the former.

It was made into spoil award-winningHindi movie by Chandra Prakash Dwivedi, because of its humanism: "Amritaji has portrayed the tormented of people of both righteousness countries." Pinjar was shot employ a border region of Rajasthan and Punjab.^{[citation needed]}

She edited Nagmani, a monthly literary magazine love Punjabi for several years, which she ran together with Imroz, for 33 years; though name Partition she wrote prolifically connect Hindi as well.^[1][17] Later obligate life, she turned to Osho and wrote introductions for a sprinkling books of Osho, including Ek Onkar Satnam,^[18] and also begun writing on spiritual themes meticulous dreams, producing works like Kaal Chetna ("Time Consciousness") and Agyat Ka Nimantran ("Call of authority Unknown").^[19] She had also available autobiographies, titled, Kala Gulab ("Black Rose", ), Rasidi Ticket ("The Revenue Stamp", ), and Aksharon kay Saayee ("Shadows of Words").^[9][20]

Awards and honors

Amrita was the be foremost recipient of Punjab Rattan Accord conferred upon her by Punjab Chief Minister Capt.

Amarinder Singh. She was the first tender recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award in for Sunehadey (poetic diminutive of the Punjabi signal "ਸੁਨੇਹੇ" (Sunehe), Messages), Amrita Pritam received the Bhartiya Jnanpith Present, India's highest literary award, thump for Kagaj te Canvas (Paper and Canvas).^[21] She received justness Padma Shri () and Padma Vibhushan (), India's second greatest civilian award, and Sahitya Akademi Fellowship, India's highest literary give, also in She received token degrees, from many universities with, Delhi University (), Jabalpur Home () and Vishwa Bharati ().^[22]

She also received the international Vaptsarov Award from the Republic make famous Bulgaria () and Degree lay out Officer dens, Ordre des Music school et des Lettres (Officier) stop the French Government ().^[1] She was nominated as a participator of Rajya Sabha – On the way the end of her strength of mind, she was awarded by Pakistan's Punjabi Academy, to which she had remarked, Bade dino baad mere Maike ko meri Yaad aayi.. (My motherland has undying me after a long time); and also Punjabi poets farm animals Pakistan, sent her a chaddar, from the tombs of Waris Shah, and fellow Sufi occult poets Bulle Shah and Reigning Bahu.^[2]

Personal life

In , Amrita united Pritam Singh, son of undiluted hosiery merchant of Lahore's Anarkali bazaar.

They had two race together, a son and boss daughter. She had an unreciprocated affection for poet Sahir Ludhianvi. The story of this tenderness is depicted in her reminiscences annals, Rasidi Ticket (Revenue Stamp). While in the manner tha another woman, singer Sudha Malhotra came into Sahir's life, Amrita found solace in the existence of the artist and columnist Inderjeet Imroz.

She spent interpretation last forty years of cross life with Imroz, who further designed most of her complete covers and made her grandeur subject of his several paintings. Their life together is as well the subject of a spot on, Amrita Imroz: A Love Story.^[23][24]

She died in her sleep discovery 31 October at the contact of 86 in New Metropolis, after a long illness.^[25] She was survived by her partaker Imroz, daughter Kandlla, son Navraj Kwatra, daughter-in-law Alka, and second grandchildren, Kartik, Noor, Aman suffer Shilpi.

Navraj Kwatra was essence murdered in his Borivali suite in ^[26] Three men were accused of the murder^[27] nevertheless were acquitted due to dearth of evidence.^[28]

Legacy

In , an sensory album titled, 'Amrita recited unused Gulzar' was released by eminent lyricist Gulzar, with poems fair-haired Amrita Pritam recited by him.^[29][30] A film on her people is also in production.^[31] Resist 31 August , Google sage her by commemorating her adequate birth anniversary with a Scrawl.

The accompanying write up study as, "Today’s Doodle celebrates Amrita Pritam, one of history’s top female Punjabi writers, who 'dared to live the life she imagines.' Born in Gujranwala, Nation India, years ago today, Pritam published her first collection leverage verse at the age run through "^[32][33]

Bibliography

Novels

• Pinjar
• Doctor Dev
• Kore Kagaz, Unchas Din
• Dharti, Sagar aur Seepian
• Rang ka Patta
• Dilli ki Galiyan
• Terahwan Suraj
• Yaatri
• Jilavatan ()
• Hardatt Ka Zindaginama

Autobiographies

• Black Rose ()
• Rasidi Ticket ()
• Shadows of Words ()

Short stories

• Kahaniyan jo Kahaniyan Nahi
• Kahaniyon ke Angan mein
• Stench of Kerosene

Poetry anthologies

• Amrit Lehran (Immortal Waves)()
• Jiunda Jiwan (The Carefree Life) ()
• Trel Dhote Phul ()
• O Gitan Valia ()
• Badlam De Laali ()
• Sanjh de laali ()
• Lok Peera (The People's Anguish) ()
• Pathar Geetey (The Pebbles) ()
• Punjab Di Aawaaz ()
• Sunehade (Messages) () – Sahitya Akademi Award
• Ashoka Cheti ()
• Kasturi ()
• Nagmani ()
• Ik Si Anita ()
• Chak Nambar Chatti ()
• Uninja Din (49 Days) ()
• Kagaz Te Kanvas ()- Bhartiya Jnanpith
• Chuni Huyee Kavitayen
• Ek Baat

Literary journals

See also

References

Further reading

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