Dr. Mohanjit is a Punjabi poet. He won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2018 for his poetry collection Kone Da Suraj.[1]
Biography[edit | edit source]
Mohanjit is from village Adliwala, Amritsar district, Punjab, India.[2] His first poems were published in 1956. During the Indo-Pakistani war of 1971, his writings were published in Nagmani magazine under the title ‘Dispatches from the Western Front’.[2]
He is based in Delhi and was a lecturer at the Delhi University's Deshbandhu College.[2]
He won the Sahitya Akademi Award for the poetry collection Kone Da Suraj in 2018. In 2020, he announced that he had returned his award in support of the 2020-2021 Indian farmers' protest.[3]
Sahitya Akademi Award controversy[edit | edit source]
Mohanjit said that he got the award at the late age of 80 because the gang that was controlling the Punjabi Sahitya Akademi Award was opposed to him.[4]
Works[edit | edit source]
Collections of poems[edit | edit source]
- Sehkada Shehir
- Ohle Ch Ojiara
- Kone Da Suraj
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ "..:: SAHITYA : Akademi Awards ::." sahitya-akademi.gov.in. Retrieved 2024-05-04.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Bharti, Vishav (6 December 2018). "Sahitya Akademi Award for Mohanjit". The Tribune.
- ↑ "Bhartiya Sahitya Akademi Award winners from Punjab return awards in support of farmers". The New Indian Express. 2020-12-04. Retrieved 2024-05-04.
- ↑ Bharti, Vishav (10 December 2018). "Mohanjit-Akademi awards row nothing new, it started with Amrita Pritam".