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Amrita Pritam


Born
in Gujranwala, Punjab, Pakistan
August 31, 1919

Died
October 31, 2005

Genre
Poetry, Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction


Amrita Pritam (Punjabi: ਅਮ੍ਰਿਤਾ ਪ੍ਰੀਤਮ, امرتا پریتم ) was considered the first prominent woman Punjabi poet, novelist, and essayist. She was the leading 20th-century poet of the Punjabi language, who is equally loved on both the sides of the India-Pakistan border. With a career spanning over six decades, she produced over 100 books, of poetry, fiction, biographies, essays, a collection of Punjabi folk songs and an autobiography that were translated into several Indian and foreign languages.

She is most remembered for her poignant poem, Aj Aakhaan Waris Shah Nu (Today I invoke Waris Shah - "Ode to Waris Shah"), an elegy to the 18th-century Punjabi poet in which she expressed her anguish over massacres during the partition of India in 1947. A ...more

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पिंजर [Pinjar]
4.18 avg rating — 1,764 ratings — published 1950 — 3 editions
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Raseedi Ticket / رسیدی ٹکٹ
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Pinjar: The Skeleton and Ot...
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3.95 avg rating — 552 ratings — published 1950 — 10 editions
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मेरी प्रिय कहानियाँ [Meri P...
4.16 avg rating — 510 ratings — published 2014 — 5 editions
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ਮੈਂ ਤੇਨੁ ਫੇਰ ਮਿਲੰਗੀ
4.23 avg rating — 282 ratings — published 2004 — 4 editions
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कोरे कागज [Kore Kagaz]
4.01 avg rating — 198 ratings — published 1982 — 4 editions
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Punjabi Poems of Amrita Pri...
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Shadows of Words: An Autobi...
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अमृता प्रीतम की यादगारी कहा...
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“Warish Shah I call out to you, Rise from your grave, speak out and turn, Another page of the Book of Love”
― Amrita Pritam
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“When a man denies the power of women, he is denying his own subconscious.”
― Amrita Pritam
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“When the body perishes
all perishes
but the threads of memory
are woven of enduring atoms
I will pick these particles
weave the threads
and I will meet you yet again.”
― Amrita Pritam, ਮੈਂ ਤੇਨੁ ਫੇਰ ਮਿਲੰਗੀ
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