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'''Harbhajan Singh Halwarvi''' (1943 - 2003) was a [[Punjabi language|Punjabi]] poet. He won the [[List of Sahitya Akademi Award winners for Punjabi|Sahitya Akademi Award]] in 2002 for his poetry collection ''Pullan Ton Paar''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=..:: SAHITYA : Akademi Awards ::.. |url=https://sahitya-akademi.gov.in/awards/akademi%20samman_suchi.jsp#PUNJABI |access-date=2024-05-03 |website=sahitya-akademi.gov.in}}</ref><br />
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== Biography ==<br />
Halwarvi was born in 1943 in village [[Halwara]], [[Ludhiana district|district Ludhiana]], [[Punjab, India]]. He did post graduation in Punjabi and Mathematics. He started working with the Punjabi newspaper [[Punjabi Tribune]] in 1977 as an assistant editor and went on to become the acting editor and editor. He stopped working at the Punjabi Tribune in 1997 but joined again in 2000 to work until 2002.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Singh |first=Paramjeet |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lbZUDwAAQBAJ&dq=harbhajan+singh+halwarvi&pg=PT215 |title=Legacies of the Homeland: 100 Must Read Books by Punjabi Authors |date=2018-04-07 |publisher=Notion Press |isbn=978-1-64249-424-2 |language=en}}</ref><br />
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He was a part of the [[Naxalite–Maoist insurgency|Naxalite movement]] and went to jail multiple times.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Kalasī |first=Surajīta |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=udJjAAAAMAAJ&q=Harbhajan+Halwarvi+Punjabi+Tribune |title=Glimpses of Twentieth Century Punjabi Poetry from India, Canada, England, America, Pakistan, Kenya, Sweden, Switzerland, and Germany |date=1992 |publisher=Ajanta Publications |isbn=978-81-202-0137-8 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=2020-12-14 |title=Even in ’60s, Punjab had its heart to the Left |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chandigarh/even-in-60s-punjab-had-its-heart-to-the-left/articleshow/79713142.cms |access-date=2024-08-20 |work=The Times of India |issn=0971-8257}}</ref><br />
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== Awards ==<br />
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* Bhai Vir Singh Award by Languages Department, [[Government of Punjab, India|Government of Punjab]]<br />
* Shromani Punjabi Patrakar Award by the Government of Punjab<ref name=":0" /><br />
* 2002 - Sahitya Akademi Award<br />
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== References ==<br />
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[[Category:Recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Award in Punjabi]]<br />
[[Category:1943 births]]<br />
[[Category:2003 deaths]]<br />
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