Misha, Sohan Singh (30 August 1934 – 22 September 1986) was a
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 ...
winning
Punjabi poet.
Early life
Misha, Sohan Singh was born at village Bhent in
Kapurthala district
Kapurthala district is a district of Punjab state in northern India. The city of Kapurthala is the district headquarters.
Kapurthala District is one of the smallest districts of Punjab in terms of both area and population, with 815,168 people ...
(
British Punjab
Punjab was a province of British India. Most of the Punjab region was annexed by the East India Company in 2 April 1849, and declared a province of British Rule, it was one of the last areas of the Indian subcontinent to fall under British co ...
).
Awards
He received
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 1978 for ''Kach de vastar'' (Poetry).
Sahitya Akademi Awards 1955-2005, Official listings
See also
*List of Punjabi language poets
Poets of Punjabi language (Shahmukhi: , Gurmukhi: ਪੰਜਾਬ ਦੇ ਕਵੀ).
Poets
* Sanjeev Panje ke -21st Century
Further reading
*''Sufi Poets of the Punjab Pakistan (Their Thought and Contribution)'' Prof M Ashraf Chaudhary. Nat ...
References
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Punjabi-language poets
Recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Award in Punjabi
1934 births
1986 deaths
Indian male poets
20th-century Indian poets
Poets from Punjab, India
20th-century Indian male writers