Atamjit Singh

Atamjit Singh is a Sahitya Akademi Award winning Punjabi playwright.[1][2] He returned his Sahitya Akademi Award in October 2015.[3][4] Singh is a part of the Dakshinayan Abhiyan.[5]

Books and plays
  • Tatti Tavi Da Sach
  • Panchnad Da Paani (The Waters of the Land of The Five Rivers)

Awards
Main article: List of Sahitya Akademi Award winners for Punjabi

Singh won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2009 for Tatti Tavi Da Sach (Play)[6] and the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 2011.[7]

References
  1. "Sahitya Akademi Award". indianexpress.com. Retrieved 17 July 2016.
  2. "Revolutionary Road". indianexpress.com. Retrieved 17 July 2016.
  3. "9 writers return Sahitya awards, 1 quits Akademi". 12 October 2015.
  4. Bureau, National (12 October 2015). "More writers return Akademi awards" – via www.thehindu.com.
  5. "A movement towards progressive thought". The Navhind Times.
  6. "Sahitya Akademi Award 2009 for Tatti Tavi Da Sach". sahitya-akademi.gov.in. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 17 July 2016.
  7. "Noted Punjabi playwright Atamjit Singh gets Sangeet Natak Akademi award". timesofindia.indiatimes.com. Retrieved 17 July 2016.
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