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Which Punjabi poet and novelist, the first woman to win the Sahitya Akademi Award in Punjabi, wrote the iconic Partition poem 'Ajj Aakhaan Waris Shah Nu' addressed to the 18th-century Sufi poet?
Answer: Amrita Pritam — Amrita Pritam (1919-2005) was a trailblazing Punjabi writer whose poem invoking Waris Shah during the 1947 Partition became one of the most powerful literary responses to that trauma.
- A Ismat Chughtai
- B Qurratulain Hyder
- C Shivani
- D Amrita Pritam ✓
Amrita Pritam (1919-2005) was a trailblazing Punjabi writer whose poem invoking Waris Shah during the 1947 Partition became one of the most powerful literary responses to that trauma.