Gurdial Singh

Gurdial Singh was born on 10 January 1933 in the village of Bhaini Fateh, near Jaitu, in Punjab, the son of a carpenter. He published his first short story in 1957, taught all his life and retired in 1995 as a professor at Punjabi University in Patiala. He gave a voice to the Malwa, a region until then little present in letters, received the Padma Shri in 1998 and the Jnanpith Award in 1999, and died in Bathinda on 16 August 2016.

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• NovelThe Last Flickerਮੜ੍ਹੀ ਦਾ ਦੀਵਾGurdial Singh · 1964Literature