An audio album titled, 'Amrita recited by Gulzar' was released by noted lyricist Gulzar, with poems of Amrita Pritam recited by him
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Amrita Pritam
Amrita Pritam was an Indian novelist, essayist and poet, who wrote in Punjabi and Hindi. A prominent figure in Punjabi literature, she is the recipient of the 1956 Sahitya Akademi Award. Her body of work comprised over 100 books of poetry, fiction, biographies, essays, a collection of Punjabi folk songs and an autobiography that were all translated into several Indian and foreign languages.
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culture · Indian writer (1919–2005) · politician · autobiographer · poet · writer · journalist · novelist · also Amrita Pritam, Amrit Kaur, Pritam
Born 31 August 1919 · Died 31 October 2005 · Q1705018
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2005· 1 entry
Died 2005-10-31.
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2004· 2 entries
Awarded Padma Vibhushan in literature & education (2004).
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Awarded Fellow of the Sahitya Akademi (2004).
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1987· 1 entry
Awarded Officer of Arts and Letters (1987).
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1986· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of Rajya Sabha (1986–1992).
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1982· 1 entry
For Kagaz Te Canvas ("The Paper and the Canvas")
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1981· 1 entry
Awarded Jnanpith Award (1981).
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1969· 2 entries
Awarded Padma Shri in literature and education (1969).
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And the Padma Vibhushan, India's second highest civilian award, in 2004
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1956· 2 entries
Awarded Sahitya Akademi Award in Punjabi for Sunehure (1956).
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For Sunehadey (poetic diminutive of the Punjabi word "ਸੁਨੇਹੇ" (Sunehe), Messages), Amrita Pritam received the Bhartiya Jnanpith Award, India's highest literary award, in 1982 for Kagaj te Canvas (Paper and Canvas)
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1947· 3 entries
While she was pregnant with her son, and traveling from Dehradun to Delhi, she expressed anguish on a piece of paper like the poem, "Ajj Aakhaan Waris Shah Nu" (I ask Waris Shah Today); this poem was to later immortalize
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And left Amrita Pritam a Punjabi refugee at age 28, when she left Lahore and moved to New Delhi
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Migrated from Lahore to India, though she remained equally popular in Pakistan throughout her life
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1936· 1 entry
At age sixteen, the year she married Pritam Singh, an editor to whom she was engaged in early childhood and changed her name from Amrit Kaur to Amrita Pritam
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1935· 1 entry
Amrita married Pritam Singh, son of a hosiery merchant of Lahore's Anarkali bazaar
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1919· 2 entries
Born 1919-08-31.
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In Gujranwala, Punjab, in British India into a Sikh family
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