1919 - 2005
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, Amrita Pritam ranks 2,369 out of 5,755. Before 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.
1891 - 1917
HPI: 53.83
Rank: 2,363
HPI: 53.82
Rank: 2,364
1928 - 2010
HPI: 53.82
Rank: 2,365
1919 - 2006
HPI: 53.82
Rank: 2,366
1902 - 1952
HPI: 53.81
Rank: 2,367
1398 - 1475
HPI: 53.81
Rank: 2,368
1919 - 2005
HPI: 53.81
Rank: 2,369
662 - 710
HPI: 53.81
Rank: 2,370
48 BC - 6 BC
HPI: 53.81
Rank: 2,371
1797 - 1882
HPI: 53.81
Rank: 2,372
805 - 869
HPI: 53.81
Rank: 2,373
1885 - 1936
HPI: 53.80
Rank: 2,374
1921 - 2017
HPI: 53.80
Rank: 2,375
Among people born in 1919, Amrita Pritam ranks 104. Before 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 97. Before 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.
1919 - 2020
HPI: 54.58
Rank: 98
1919 - 2006
HPI: 54.57
Rank: 99
1919 - 1983
HPI: 54.03
Rank: 100
1919 - 2007
HPI: 53.92
Rank: 101
1919 - 2006
HPI: 53.86
Rank: 102
1919 - 2006
HPI: 53.82
Rank: 103
1919 - 2005
HPI: 53.81
Rank: 104
1919 - 1989
HPI: 53.77
Rank: 105
1919 - 2010
HPI: 53.75
Rank: 106
1919 - 2012
HPI: 53.66
Rank: 107
1919 - 2010
HPI: 53.53
Rank: 108
1919 - 2017
HPI: 53.50
Rank: 109
1919 - 2009
HPI: 53.43
Rank: 110
1937 - 2005
HPI: 54.45
Rank: 91
1967 - 2005
HPI: 54.37
Rank: 92
1924 - 2005
HPI: 54.19
Rank: 93
1905 - 2005
HPI: 54.16
Rank: 94
1925 - 2005
HPI: 54.01
Rank: 95
1933 - 2005
HPI: 53.98
Rank: 96
1919 - 2005
HPI: 53.81
Rank: 97
1915 - 2005
HPI: 53.79
Rank: 98
1918 - 2005
HPI: 53.71
Rank: 99
1921 - 2005
HPI: 53.60
Rank: 100
1929 - 2005
HPI: 53.53
Rank: 101
1921 - 2005
HPI: 53.49
Rank: 102
1908 - 2005
HPI: 53.41
Rank: 103
Among people born in Pakistan, Amrita Pritam ranks 39 out of 180. Before 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).
1898 - 1998
HPI: 55.33
Rank: 33
550 BC - Present
HPI: 55.25
Rank: 34
1178 - 1265
HPI: 54.97
Rank: 35
1613 - 1689
HPI: 54.64
Rank: 36
1955 - Present
HPI: 54.56
Rank: 37
1922 - 2021
HPI: 54.26
Rank: 38
1919 - 2005
HPI: 53.81
Rank: 39
400 BC - 360 BC
HPI: 53.79
Rank: 40
1935 - 2021
HPI: 53.43
Rank: 41
1914 - 1980
HPI: 53.39
Rank: 42
1925 - 2019
HPI: 52.39
Rank: 43
147 - 200
HPI: 52.06
Rank: 44
1632 - 1706
HPI: 51.56
Rank: 45
Among writers born in Pakistan, Amrita Pritam ranks 4. Before 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).
1877 - 1938
HPI: 65.93
Rank: 1
400 - 400
HPI: 64.47
Rank: 2
1613 - 1689
HPI: 54.64
Rank: 3
1919 - 2005
HPI: 53.81
Rank: 4
1925 - 2019
HPI: 52.39
Rank: 5
1632 - 1706
HPI: 51.56
Rank: 6
1911 - 1984
HPI: 50.12
Rank: 7
1943 - Present
HPI: 49.51
Rank: 8
1915 - 2014
HPI: 42.83
Rank: 9
1905 - 2004
HPI: 42.24
Rank: 10
1941 - Present
HPI: 42.23
Rank: 11
1952 - 1994
HPI: 36.45
Rank: 12