Amrita Pritam

Amrita Pritam was a major Punjabi poet and fiction writer who later also wrote in Hindi. Her work addressed Partition, displacement, love, and women’s lives, with the poem “Ajj Aakhaan Waris Shah Nu” and the novel *Pinjar* among her best-known works. Born in Gujranwala in 1919, she received the Sahitya Akademi Award for *Sunehry* in 1956 and remained an influential figure in modern Indian literature until her death in 2005.