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WRITER

Amrita Pritam

1919 - 2005

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Amrita Pritam ([Əੰm੍ɾਿt̪ਾ p੍ɾੀt̪m] ; 31 August 1919 – 31 October 2005) was an Indian novelist, essayist and poet, who wrote in Punjabi and Hindi. A prominent figure in Punjabi literature, she is the recipient of the 1956 Sahitya Akademi Award. Her body of work comprised over 100 books of poetry, fiction, biographies, essays, a collection of Punjabi folk songs and an autobiography that were all translated into several Indian and foreign languages.Pritam is best remembered for her poignant poem, Ajj aakhaan Waris Shah nu (Today I invoke Waris Shah – "Ode to Waris Shah"), an elegy to the 18th-century Punjabi poet, and an expression of her anguish over massacres during the partition of India. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Amrita Pritam has received more than 2,092,231 page views. Her biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 42 in 2019). Amrita Pritam is the 2,369th most popular writer (up from 2,577th in 2019), the 39th most popular biography from Pakistan (down from 38th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Pakistani Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Amrita Pritam ranks 2,369 out of 5,755Before her are Maksim Bahdanovič, Bhavabhuti, Alan Sillitoe, Silva Kaputikyan, Vladimír Clementis, and Theodorus Gaza. After her are Kakinomoto no Hitomaro, Consort Ban, Friedrich von Lütke, Gottschalk of Orbais, Dezső Kosztolányi, and Anne Golon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, Amrita Pritam ranks 104Before her are Mario Bunge, Red Buttons, Hennes Weisweiler, Antonio Aguilar, Gérard Oury, and Silva Kaputikyan. After her are Ahmed Abdallah, Anatoly Dobrynin, Edoardo Mangiarotti, Tomáš Špidlík, Raymond Smullyan, and Gene Barry. Among people deceased in 2005, Amrita Pritam ranks 97Before her are Monica Zetterlund, Eddie Guerrero, George Mikan, Frits Philips, Johnny Carson, and Edward Bunker. After her are Henry Taube, Teresa Wright, Vasco Gonçalves, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Kocheril R. Narayanan, and John Mills.

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In Pakistan

Among people born in Pakistan, Amrita Pritam ranks 39 out of 180Before her are Gulzarilal Nanda (1898), Khema (-550), Fariduddin Ganjshakar (1178), Khushal Khattak (1613), Asif Ali Zardari (1955), and Dilip Kumar (1922). After her are Taxiles (-400), Milkha Singh (1935), Yahya Khan (1914), Krishna Sobti (1925), Lokaksema (147), and Rahman Baba (1632).

Among WRITERS In Pakistan

Among writers born in Pakistan, Amrita Pritam ranks 4Before her are Muhammad Iqbal (1877), Vasubandhu (400), and Khushal Khattak (1613). After her are Krishna Sobti (1925), Rahman Baba (1632), Faiz Ahmad Faiz (1911), Tariq Ali (1943), Khushwant Singh (1915), Mulk Raj Anand (1905), Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi (1941), and Parveen Shakir (1952).