Amrita Pritam

Poet & Novelist

(1919 – 2005) · South Asia

Celebrated Punjabi poet and novelist, born in 1919, and the first woman to receive the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1956. Her poetry and fiction explored love, partition, and female desire with radical honesty, and her lifelong relationship with poet Sahir Ludhianvi became the stuff of literary legend.