Padma Shri, Sahitya Akademi award winner Dr. Dalip Kaur Tiwana is no more
Kanwar Inder Singh/ royalpatiala.in/ Chandigarh
Padma Shri, Sahitya Akademi Award winner ,84 years old Dr. Dalip Kaur Tiwana died at a Max hospital in Mohali. Cremation will be held at Patiala on Saturday, February 1.
Dr. Dalip Kaur Tiwana a recipient of numerous awards at regional and national level, retired as a professor of Punjabi from Punjabi University, Patiala, was a foremost novelist and short-story writer of contemporary Punjabi literature. She has won awards, both regional and national, and is a widely translated author.
Dalip Kaur Tiwana was born on 4 May 1935 in village Rabbon in the Ludhiana district of Punjab in a well-to-do land-owning family. She was educated at Patiala, where her uncle, Sardar Sahib Tara Singh Sidhu was Inspector General of Prisons. She had a distinguished academic career. She earned first class honors in the pursuit of her M.A., and then received a PhD degree from the Panjab University, Chandigarh.
In 1963, she joined the Punjabi University, Patiala as a Lecturer and then went on to become Professor and Head of the Department of Punjabi, and Dean, Faculty of Languages. She was a brilliant teacher and researcher and made a significant contribution to literary and critical studies in Punjabi. She was also a UGC National Lecturer for a year.
