Awards & Winners

Amrita Pritam

Date of Birth 31-August-1919
Place of Birth Gujranwala
(Pakistan, Punjab, Pakistan)
Nationality India
Also know as Amrita Preetam, Amrita Kaur, अमृता कौर, अमृता प्रीतम
Profession Writer, Essayist, Poet
Amrita Pritam was an Indian writer and poet, who wrote in Punjabi and Hindi. She is considered the first prominent woman Punjabi poet, novelist, and essayist, and the leading 20th-century poet of the Punjabi language, who is equally loved on both the sides of the India-Pakistan border. With a career spanning over six decades, she produced over 100 books, of poetry, fiction, biographies, essays, a collection of Punjabi folk songs and an autobiography that were translated into several Indian and foreign languages. She is most remembered for her poignant poem, Aj Aakhaan Waris Shah Nu, an elegy to the 18th-century Punjabi poet, an expression of her anguish over massacres during the partition of India. As a novelist, her most noted work was Pinjar, in which she created her memorable character, Puro, an epitome of violence against women, loss of humanity and ultimate surrender to existential fate; the novel was made into an award-winning film, Pinjar in 2003. When the former British India was partitioned into the independent states of India and Pakistan in 1947, she migrated from Lahore, to India, though she remained equally popular in Pakistan throughout her life, as compared to her contemporaries like Mohan Singh and Shiv Kumar Batalvi.

Awards by Amrita Pritam

Check all the awards nominated and won by Amrita Pritam.

2004


Zee Cine Award for Best Story
Honored for : Pinjar
Zee Cine Award for Best Lyricist
Honored for : Pinjar
(Charka Chalati Hai)

Nominations 2004 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Zee Cine Award for Best Lyricist Pinjar
Charka Chalati Hai

1981


Jnanpith Award
Honored for : Kagaj te Canvas
(Punjabi)

1956


Sahitya Akademi Award to Punjabi Writers
Honored for : Sunehar?e
(Sunehure (Poetry))