The Dhahan Prize for Punjabi Literature celebrates the rich culture and transnational heritage of Punjabi literature and language. The prize aims to promote the growth of Punjabi language globally, as well as encourage new, emerging, and established writers working in the two Punjabi scripts, Gurmukhi and Shahmukhi.
The evening reception, hosted by Christopher Gibbons, the Consul General of Canada in Chandigarh, and Barj Dhahan, the Founder of Dhahan Prize, brought together an impressive list of guests to celebrate Punjabi literature.
21 March, 2017
The first contest of it's kind in British Columbia, the Dhahan Prize has launched a youth award for creative writing. It has long been the desire of The Prize to include youth in its family through a youth specific creative writing prize, the Dhahan Prize Youth Award. Thanks to Coast Capital Savings, the Youth Award is now a reality.
1 March, 2017Zahid Hasan is a prolific writer. He has written in Urdu and Punjabi, both prose, and poetry. Tassi Dharti is his fourth Punjabi novel and is arguably his best novel so far. It was recently awarded the best Pakistani Punjabi Novel of the year by the Vancouver-based Dhahan International Punjabi Literature Prize jury 2016.
23 December, 2016