Amrita pritam biography in punjabi language books

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Poetry The Legend Of Amrita Pritam

Amrita Pritam is credited to be the first prominent woman Punjabi Poet , Novelist and essayist . Her career spanned over six decades during which she wrote over a 100 books of poetry , fiction , biographies , a collection of punjabi folk songs and an autobiography that were translated into many other languages . Amrita Pritam was a winner of some very prestigious Literary awards . She not only excelled in the field of poetry but her essays and novels too took the literary world bygd storm .
In 1956, she became the first woman to win the Sahitya Akademi Award for her magnum opus, a long poem, Sunehray (Messages), later she received the Bhartiya Jnanpith, one of India's highest literary awards, in 1982 for Kagaz Te Canvas (The Paper and the Canvas). The Padma Shri came her way in 1969 and finally, Padma Vibhushan, India's second highest civilian award, in 2004, and in the same year she was honoured with India's highest litera

amrita pritam biography in punjabi language books

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Books by Amrita Pritam

पिंजर [Pinjar]
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4.14 avg rating — 1,508 ratings — published 1950 — 17 editions

Raseedi Ticket / رسیدی ٹکٹ
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3.98 avg rating — 1,012 ratings — published 1976 — 21 editions

Pinjar: The Skeleton and Other Stories
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3.95 avg rating — 472 ratings — published 1950 — 10 editions

मेरी प्रिय कहानियाँ [Meri Priya Kahaniyaan]
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4.16 avg rating — 443 ratings — published 2014 — 4 editions

ਮੈਂ ਤੇਨੁ ਫੇਰ ਮਿਲੰਗੀ
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4.23 avg rating — 245 ratings — published 2004 — 4 editions

कोरे कागज [Kore Kagaz]
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4.01 avg rating — 172 ratings — published 1982 — 3 editions

Punjabi Poems of Amrita Pritam in Gurmukhi, Hindi, Roman and English
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4.22 avg rating — 130 ratings

Shadows of Words: An Autobiography
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3.86 avg rating — 114 ratings — published 2001 — 7 editions

अमृता प्रीतम की यादगा

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अक्षरों के साये [Aksharon Ke Saye]

April 26, 2020

Aksharon ke Saye (The Shadow of Words) by Amrita Pritam- First autobiography of the author Raseedi Ticket (Revenue Stamp) . This book is autobiographical. She is unapologetically bold and expressive about her writing and about her personal life. The book depicts all that a woman was not allowed or accepted to be at her times. She is a born rebel. In the present book, her life can be classified in three parts, first as a child who started composing poems and got them published at the age of 16. This is from 1936 to 1943 in Lahore Pakistan. Next part, is after Partition of India, August, 1947 onwards, her journey as a poet, novelist, travelogues to various countries, Member of Parliament, Mother of two children, third part is philosophy. Impression of work of Sufi saints, sadness of holocaust of partition, resonance of letters, books of Acharya Rajneesh. She mentions that shadow of death was all around her. Her brother died at the age