Manjit Tiwana

Manjit Tiwana was born in Patiala, Punjab. She did her M.A. in Psychology and English from the Punjab University in 1969 and 1973 respectively, and Ph.D. in Psychology in 1984. She also did Diploma in Indian Theatre (Acting and Direction) in 1975.

She has been a teacher of Psychology in colleges. She also worked as Head of the Department of Psychology in Government College for Women, Chandigarh.

Tiwana's first poem was published in Nagmani when she was only sixteen. Manjit has authored seven collections of poetry, the significant poetical works are: Ilham (1976), Ilzam (1980), Tarian di joon (1982), Unida Wartman (1987), Savitri (1989)and Jin Prem Kiyo.[1]

She is the recipient of the Sahitya Akademi award[2] (1990) for Uninda Wartman (Poetry) and the Shiromani Punjabi Kavi Puraskar by Punjab State Languages Department for the year 1999.[3]

• Poetry by Tiwana at the Wayback Machine (archived 28 October 2009)
• The Trio of Punjabi Poetesses