Awards & Winners

Gurdial Singh

Gurdial Singh is a Punjabi writer, novelist and story-writer from East Punjab. He started his literary career in 1957 with a short-story, Bhaganwale. He became known as a novelist when he published the novel Marhi Da Deeva in 1964. Surinder Singh directed a film, Marhi Da Deeva, based on the novel. After Amrita Pritam he is the second Punjabi writer to bag the Jnanpith Award.

Awards by Gurdial Singh

Check all the awards nominated and won by Gurdial Singh.

1999


Jnanpith Award
(Punjabi)