- Dalip Kaur Tiwana
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Dr. Dalip Kaur Tiwana is a foremost novelist and short-story writer of contemporary Punjabi literature.
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Biography
She was born at village Rabbon in the Ludhiana district of Punjab in 1935. She did her M.A. and Ph.D. in Punjabi literature from the Punjab University.[disambiguation needed
][1]She worked as Professor of Punjabi in the Punjabi Department of Punjabi University, Patiala.[2]
Collection
Tiwana wrote her first, novel, Agni prikhya (The ordeal of fire), which was followed by a chain of novels; Vat hamari (Our path, 1970), Teeli da nishan (Mark of nose-pin, 1971), Suraj te samundar (Sun and ocean, 1972), Doosri Sita (Second Sita, 1975), Sarkandeya de desh (The land of reeds), Dhup, chhan te rukh (Sun shade and trees, 1976), Lammi udari (A long flight), and her latest novel Peele patian di dastan (The tale of yellow leaves). Apart from these novels, Tiwana has written an autobiography entitled Nange peran da safar (Travelling on bare feet).[3]
Tiwana has also published six short-story collections: Sadhana (Endeavour), Yatra (Pilgrimage), Kise di dhee (Someone's daughter), Ik kuri (A girl), Tera kamra mera kamra (Your room my room) and Malan (Gardener's wife). Her short-stories have been translated into English, Hindi and Urdu and published in various journals and included in anthologies.
The characters in Tiwana's novels and short-stories are the downtrodden and the innocent rural folk with suppressed desires and passions. Tragedy and irony mark the main elements of her fiction. Complex inner duality of the female psyche is the chief theme of Tiwana. Besides her achievement in fiction, Tiwana has written two books on literary criticism too.
Awards
- Padma Shri Award in 2004 for Literature & Education
- Sahitya Akademi Award in 1971 for novel Eho hamara jivan (This our life, 1969)[4]
- Saraswati Samman in 2001 for novel Katha Kaho Urvashi[5]
References
- ^ http://www.ludhianadistrict.com/personality/dalip-kaur-tiwana.php
- ^ http://www.quamiekta.com/englishnews/p.php?q=1353
- ^ http://www.sikh-history.com/sikhhist/personalities/literature/dalipktiwana.html
- ^ http://www.sahitya-akademi.gov.in/old_version/awa10316.htm#punjabi
- ^ http://www.tribuneindia.com/2002/20020125/nation.htm#8
See also
Saraswati Samman 1991-2000 Harivanshrai 'Bachchan' (1991) · Ramakant Rath (1992) · Vijay Tendulkar (1993) · Harbhajan Singh (poet) (1994) · Balamani_Amma (1995) · Shamsur Rahman Faruqi (1996) · Manubhai Pancholi (1997) · Shankha Ghosh (1998) · Indira Parthasarathy (1999) · Manoj Das (2000) ·
2000-2010 Dalip Kaur Tiwana (2001) · Mahesh Elkunchwar (2002) · Govind Chandra Pande (2003) · Sunil Gangopadhyay (2004) · K. Ayyappa Panicker (2005) · Jagannath Prasad Das (2006) · Naiyer Masud (2007) · Lakshmi Nandan Bora (2008) · Surjit Paatar (2009) ·
Categories:- Living people
- Indian novelists
- Recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Award
- Recipients of the Padma Shri
- People from Punjab (India)
- Sikh writers
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