Our Sleepless Times (Sahitya Akademi Award Winning Punjabi Poetry Collection)
Book Specification
Item Code: | UAM578 |
Author: | Manjit Tiwana and B.M. Razdan |
Publisher: | SAHITYA AKADEMI, DELHI |
Language: | English |
Edition: | 2003 |
ISBN: | 8126013702 |
Pages: | 63 |
Cover: | PAPERBACK |
Other Details | 8.50 X 5.50 inch |
Weight | 100 gm |
Book Description
Our Sleepless Times (Uninda Vartman), the award-winning collection, contains twenty-four poems remarkable for their intensity of feeling and thought and felicity of expression. Using rich and evocative symbols, the poet converts the apparently common place to a unique experience. The book stands out for its powerful use of language, intensity of imagination and sensitive probing of subtle feelings.
Manjit Tiwana (b. 1947) has post-graduate degrees in English and Psychology. She was awarded a Ph.D. degree in Psychology for her pioneering research on the processes of creative writing. She has published five collections of poems including Ihaam, Ilzam and Uninda Vartman; Savitri, a long epic poem, two novels and a play. She has been teaching Psychology in a Govt. College for last 25 years.
B.M. Razdan (1924-2000) started his literary career in 1969. He joined English Department, Punjabi University in 1971 and retired in 1984. He had been translating regularly from Punjabi into English.
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