Prabhjot Kaur (6 July 1924 – 24 November 2016), was a Punjabi author and poet.

Biography

She was born in Gujrat,

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. Kaur married

Narenderpal Singh Narenderpal Singh (born 17 October 1924 in Lyallpur, British India) is an Indian novelist who writes in Punjabi. He was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1976 for his book ''Baa Mulahaza Hoshiar'' by the Government of India. Life and career ...

, who was also a writer and novelist. She lived in Defence Colony, New Delhi. She had two daughters, Anupama & Nirupma. Nirupma was married to Harinder Singh, son of Hukam Singh, First speaker of Parliament. Anupama was married to former Indian Army Chief J.J.Singh.

Books and poems

* ''Plateau'' * ''Dreams die young'' * ''Pabbī : Pañjābī kavitā-saṅkalana'' * ''Zindagī de kujha pala'' * ''Kiṇake'' * ''Madhiāntara'' * ''Candara yuga : kawitāwāṃ'' * ''Khāṛī '' * ''Kandhárí hawá'' * ''Bolaṇa dī nahīṃ jā we aṛiā''

Awards and honours

* Kaur, along with her husband Narenderpal Singh, 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 1964 for her collection of poems, "Pabbi". *

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award, 1967. * "La Rose de France" award, 1968 *

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has decorated her with Distinguished Order of Poetry. *Nominated to the

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Punjab Punjab (; Punjabi: پنجاب ; ਪੰਜਾਬ ; ; also romanised as ''Panjāb'' or ''Panj-Āb'') is a geopolitical, cultural, and historical region in South Asia, specifically in the northern part of the Indian subcontinent, comprising ...

. *Member of

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References

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