Role
Member
Title
Retired Civil Servant and Punjabi Author
Region
Punjab, India
Born in historic Jaitu, Punjab, India, Jung Bahadur Goyal is a retired civil servant as well as a writer and translator of Punjabi. In addition to his Shahmukhi magazine articles, he also writes in Hindi and English, having completed 22 books.
His novel, “Vishav Sahit de Shahakar” comes in five volumes and is considered his seminal work. He has translated several books into Punjabi, and has had his own works translated to Hindi and Urdu, as well as and transliterated into Shahmukhi.
Goyal is the recipient of a Sahitya Kala Parishad award, “Punjab Gaurav.” His honours have come from Punjabi University (in Patiala), Chandigarh Sahitya Akademi, Punjabi Sahit Academy (in Ludhiana), World Punjabi Conference and Punjab Sahit Sabha (in New Delhi).
Goyal completed postgraduate studies in English at Government College Ludhiana in 1969. As a civil servant, he acted as the founding Deputy Commissioner of the newly formed District Nawanshahr, Punjab in 1995.
