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Born in 1933, Gurdial Singh is an internationally acclaimed Punjabi writer. Starting as a school teacher, he slowly inched his way up, first a college lecturer, then a professor at the Regional Centre of Punjabi University, Bathinda. Marhi Da Deeva (1964), often hailed as a modern classic, was his debut novel. Unhoye (1966), Adh Chanini Raat (1972) and Parsa (1991), among his novels, and Saggi Phul (1962), Upra Ghar (1966), Kutta Te Aadmi (1972), Begana Pindh (1981) and Kareer Di Dhingri (1991) among his short fictions, are some of the milestones of his five-decade along literary odyssey. Apart from translating his own works into Hindi, he has also translated other Indian, even foreign writers, into Punjabi. Three of his novels, Marhi Da Deeva, Adh Chanini Raat and Parsa have been translated into English. Among several other honours, he has been felicitated with the Punjab Sahitya Akademi Award, the Sahitya Akademi Award, and the Bharatiya Jnanpith Award.