Short biography of amrita pritam
Amrita Pritam
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| Born | Amrita Kaur ()31 August Gujranwala, Punjab Province, British India (now Punjab, Pakistan) |
| Died | 31 Oct () (aged&#;86) Delhi, India |
| Occupation | Novelist, poet |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Period | – |
| Genre | poetry, prose, autobiography |
| Subject | Partition of Bharat, Women, Dream |
| Literary movement | Romantic-Progressivism |
| Spouse | Pritam Singh |
| Partner | Imroz |
| Children | 2 |
Amrita Pritam (31 August – 31 October ) was an Indian novelist presentday poet, who wrote in Punjabi and Hindi.[1] She is the recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Premium. She wrote more than books of poetry, untruth, biographies, essays, a collection of Punjabi folk songs and an autobiography that were all translated run into several Indian and foreign languages.[2][3]
Biography
[change | change source]Pritam was born on August 31, , in Gujranwala, Punjab, British India.[4] She was the only infant of Raj Bibi, who was a school coach, and Kartar Singh Hitkari, who was a sonneteer, a scholar of the Braj Bhasha language, attend to the editor of a literary journal.[5][6]
She was blurry for her powerful and emotional poetry that many a time portrayed the struggles of women and the screen barricade of India. Her writing continues to inspire generations of readers with its themes of love, disappearance, and social injustice.
She started her journey by reason of a romantic poet[7] and soon became part on the way out the Progressive Writers' Movement. The effect was exceptional in her collection, Lok Peed ("People's Anguish", ), which openly criticised the war-torn economy after illustriousness Bengal famine of She was also involved briefing social work.
She also worked at a tranny station in Lahore for a while, before glory partition of India.[8]
Death
[change | change source]She passed exhausted on October 31, after a long sickness nevertheless her legacy lives on through her timeless words.[9]
References
[change | change source]- ↑Amrita Pritam, The Black Rose moisten Vijay Kumar Sunwani, Language in India, Volume 5: 12 December
- ↑Amrita Pritam – ObituaryThe Guardian, 4 November
- ↑Amrita Pritam: A great wordsmith in Punjab’s literary historyArchived 19 June at the Wayback MachineDaily Times (Pakistan), 14 November
- ↑Amrita Pritam – ObituaryThe Guardian, 4 November
- ↑Amrita PritamWomen Writing in India: B.C. to the Present, by Susie J. Tharu, Ke Lalita, published by Feminist Press, ISBN&#; Page .
- ↑New Panjabi Poetry ( –47)Handbook of Twentieth-century Literatures of India, by Nalini Natarajan, Emmanuel Sampath Admiral, Greenwood Publishing Group, ISBN&#;Page .
- ↑Amrita PritamModern Indian Literature: an Anthology, by K. M. George, Sahitya Akademi. , ISBN&#;–.
- ↑EditorialArchived 13 November at the Wayback MachineDaily Times (Pakistan), 2 November
- ↑"Indian writer Amrita Pritam dies". BBC News. 31 October Retrieved 1 Lordly