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Manjit Tiwana (born 1947) is an Indian poet.

Biography

Tiwana's first poem was published in Nagmani when she was only sixteen.^{[citation needed]} 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]

Awards

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]

References

External links

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

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