Manjit Tiwana (born 1947) is an Indian poet. Her first poem was published in Nagmani when she was only sixteen. Manjit has authored seven collections of poetry, the significant poetical works are: ''Ilham'' (1976), ''Ilzam'' (1980), ''Tarian di joon'' (1982), ''Unida Wartman'' (1987), ''Savitri'' (1989)and ''Jin Prem Kiyo''.

Awards

She is the recipient of the

Sahitya Akademi award The Sahitya Akademi Award is a literary honour in India, which the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, annually confers on writers of the most outstanding books of literary merit published in any of the 22 languages of the ...

(1990) for ''Uninda Wartman'' (Poetry) and the Shiromani Punjabi Kavi Puraskar by Punjab State Languages Department for the year 1999.

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The Trio of Punjabi Poetesses
1947 births Living people Indian women poets Recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Award in Punjabi Indian Sikhs Punjabi-language poets 20th-century Indian poets Women writers from Punjab, India People from Patiala Poets from Punjab, India 20th-century Indian women writers {{India-poet-stub