Jaswant Singh Kanwal is a novelist, short story writer and essayist of the Punjabi language. He was born in the village of Dhudike, Moga District, Punjab, India.[1] As a young teenager he left school and went to Malaya. It was there that he first got interested in literature. He returned back to Dhudike after a few years and has lived there ever since. He was awarded the Punjabi Sahit Shiromani Award[2] in the year 2007.