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{{Short description|Punjabi poet}}
'''Tara Singh Kamil''' (15 August 1929 - 1993) was a Punjabi poet. He won the [[List of Sahitya Akademi Award winners for Punjabi|Sahitya Akademi Award]] in 1989 for his poetry collection ''Kahikashan.''<ref>{{Cite web |title=..:: SAHITYA : Akademi Awards ::.. |url=https://sahitya-akademi.gov.in/awards/akademi%20samman_suchi.jsp#PUNJABI |access-date=2024-05-04 |website=sahitya-akademi.gov.in}}</ref>

== Biography ==
Tara Singh was born in village Hookran, [[Hoshiarpur district]], [[Punjab Province (British India)|British Punjab]] (now [[Punjab, India]]).{{cn|date=May 2024}} He lived in New Delhi.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Singh |first=Jaspal |date=26 November 2017 |title=New vistas of Punjabi prose |url=https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/archive/book-reviews/new-vistas-of-punjabi-prose-502349}}</ref>

He was a carpenter by profession and frequently performed at kavi darbars (poetry recitals).<ref>{{Cite book |last=Singh |first=Khushwant |title=A History of the Sikhs: Volume 2: 1839-2004 (2nd edn)}}</ref>

== Literary style ==
Tara Singh's Sahitya Akademi Award winning collection ''Kahikashan'' has two primary themes; love and the situation of Punjab. His love poetry is not romantic poetry but "of a different hue".<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Punni |first=Amrik Singh |date=1989 |title=Punjabi Scene: Love Poetry, Marxism and Punjab |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23331317 |journal=Indian Literature |volume=32 |issue=6 (134) |pages=161–168 |issn=0019-5804}}</ref>

== References ==
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[[Category:Recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Award in Punjabi]]
[[Category:Punjabi-language writers]]
[[Category:1929 births]]
[[Category:1993 deaths]]

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