Mohinder Singh Sarna (1923,
Rawalpindi
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,
British India
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- 2001) was an Indian civil servant and novelist who wrote in
Punjabi
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* Something of, from, or related to Punjab, a region in India and Pakistan
* Punjabi language
* Punjabi people
* Punjabi dialects and languages
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. He won the 1994
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 ...
for his short story collection ''Nawen Yug De Waris''. He served as an officer of
Indian Audit and Accounts Service
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from the 1950 batch and is the father of diplomat
Navtej Sarna
Navtej Singh Sarna (born 1957) is an Indian author-columnist, diplomat and former List of ambassadors of India to the United States, Indian Ambassador to the United States. He previously served as the High Commission of India to the United Kingd ...
.
Books
*Naweṃ yugga de wārasa
*Aba jhūjana ko dāu : mahāṅkāwi
*Aurata īmāna
*Camakaura.
*Dukh Bhanjan Tera Naam
*Gāthā g̲h̲ama de māriāṃ dī
*Inheritors of a new age
*Katala pañjāṃ pạ̄ṇīāṃ dā : desha-waṇḍa dīāṃ kahāṇīāṃ
*Kāliñgā.
Awards
Sarna won 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 ...
in 1994 for his book ''Nawen Yug De Waris'' (Short stories)
See also
*
List of Sahitya Akademi Award winners for Punjabi
Sahitya Akademi Award is given each year, since 1955, by the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, to writers and their works, for their outstanding contribution to the upliftment of Indian literature and Punjabi literature in ...
References
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People from Rawalpindi District
Punjabi-language writers
Recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Award in Punjabi
1923 births
2001 deaths
20th-century Indian novelists
Novelists from Punjab, India