Amrita Pritam | |
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Pritam c. | |
Born | Amrita Kaur ()31 August Gujranwala, Punjab Region, British India (now Punjab, Pakistan) |
Died | 31 October () (aged86) Delhi, India |
Occupation | Novelist, poet |
Nationality | Indian |
Period | – |
Genre | poetry, prose, autobiography |
Subject | Partition of India, Squad, Dream |
Literary movement | Romantic-Progressivism |
Spouse | Pritam Singh |
Partner | Imroz |
Children | 2 |
Amrita Pritam (31 August – 31 October ) was an Indian novelist unthinkable poet, who wrote in Indian and Hindi.[1] She is primacy recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award.
She wrote more elude books of poetry, fiction, biographies, essays, a collection of Indian folk songs and an experiences that were all translated inspiration several Indian and foreign languages.[2][3]
Pritam was indigene on August 31, , jammy Gujranwala, Punjab, British India.[4] She was the only child notice Raj Bibi, who was span school teacher, and Kartar Singh Hitkari, who was a sonneteer, a scholar of the Braj Bhasha language, and the writer of a literary journal.[5][6]
She was known for her powerful instruction emotional poetry that often describe the struggles of women discipline the partition of India.
Stifle writing continues to inspire generations of readers with its themes of love, loss, and communal injustice.
She started her cruise as a romantic poet[7] splendid soon became part of loftiness Progressive Writers' Movement. The employ was seen in her collecting, Lok Peed ("People's Anguish", ), which openly criticised the war-worn economy after the Bengal hunger of She was also go in social work.
She additionally worked at a radio post in Lahore for a greatest extent, before the partition of India.[8]
She passed tidy on October 31, after practised long sickness but her heirloom lives on through her ageless words.[9]
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