Amrita Pritam
31 August 1919 – 31 October 2005
Amrita Pritam was an Indian writer who worked in Punjabi and Hindi, publishing poetry, fiction and essays over six decades. Her poem Ajj Aakhaan Waris Shah Nu, written after the 1947 partition of India, and the novel Pinjar are among her best-known works. In 1956 she became the first woman to receive the Sahitya Akademi Award, and in 1981 she was awarded the Jnanpith Award.
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Life events
She was born in what is now Pakistan and was raised in Lahore.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgShe married an editor's son to whom she had been engaged in childhood; the marriage ended in 1960.
The collection appeared when she was in her teens.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgShe left Lahore for India and later worked for All India Radio.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe elegy addresses the eighteenth-century poet Waris Shah and laments the violence of partition.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe novel follows a Punjabi woman abducted during the partition and was later filmed.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgShe was the first woman to receive the award.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgShe was the first Punjabi writer to receive India's highest literary prize.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgShe died after a long illness at the age of 86.
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