2022 Winners

Central Jury

Professor (Dr.) Muhammad Munir (Munir Gujar), Chair

University Lecturer and International Research Fellow
Educator, researcher, translator, and author with interests in Comparative Study of Literature, Fiction, and Punjabi Classics
Associate Professor of Punjabi, University of Sargodha, Punjab, Pakistan and Founder Director of International Centre for Punjab Studies

Prof. (Retd.) Jaspal Ghai, Member

Poet with four publications of Ghajals and poems, literary critic, translator, and transliterator (Gurmukhi and Shahmukhi)
Co-editor of Apni Awaaz (online monthly literary magazine and former assistant professor and Head of Post Graduate Punjabi Department, Ferozepur, Punjab, India

Mr. Jarnail Singh Sekha, Member

Writer, literary critic and arts and literature community leader
Award winning prolific author of Punjabi fiction with twelve published books and four works of literary criticism on Punjabi novels, Surrey, BC, Canada
Punjabi Language teacher in Higher Secondary Schools, Punjab, India

 

Gurmukhi Jury

Professor (Dr.) Raminder Kaur, Chair

Lecturer, researcher, literary critic, and scholar in Punjabi fiction
Professor, School of Punjabi Studies, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, Punjab, India

Professor (Dr.) Rajesh Kumar Sharma, Member

Author, lecturer, and specialist in literature, language, criticism theory, creative writing, and translation co-editor of South Asian Ensemble, a Canadian-Indian journal of literature, arts and culture
Professor, Department of English, Punjabi University, Patiala, Punjab, India

Mr. Pargat Singh Satauj, Member

Teacher and author
Critically acclaimed and award-winning writer of Punjabi works of fiction including the 2017 Dhahan Prize for 'Khabar Ik Pind Di' (News From A Village), Village Satauj, Sangrur, Punjab, India

 

Shahmukhi Jury

Professor (Dr.) Saima Batool, Chair

Educator, scholar, author, and conference speaker
Assistant Director of Baba Nanak Chair, Assistant Editor of Parakh (Punjabi Research Journal), and Assistant Professor, Lahore College for Women University, Lahore, Pakistan

Mr. Chand Shakeel, Member

Lecturer, author, columnist, news correspondent, editor
Past secretary, Punjabi Sangat Pakistan, collaborator on the Punjabi Dictionary Project, Former Editor, “Sharq” Magazine, Punjab University Oriental College, Lahore, Pakistan

Mr. Assim Hameed Lodhi, Member

Author and lecturer with interests in literary theory, modern drama and South Asian Drama
Instructor in English, Government Muhammadan Anglo Oriental College, Lahore, Pakistan

Cholan Di Burki (Short Stories), Javed Boota, Kitab Trinjan, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan

Daryawan De Hani (Short Stories), Shahzad Aslam, Sanjh Publications, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan

Dubolia (Short Stories), Balwinder Singh Grewal, Chetna Parkashan, Ludhiana, Punjab, India

Jhanjraan Wale Paer (Short Stories), Arvinder Kaur Dhaliwal, Chetna Parkashan, Ludhiana, Punjab, India

Sab Kase Aale (Novel), Ram Singh, Chetna Parkashan, Ludhiana, Punjab, India

Sahaj Gufa Meh Asan (Novel), Manmohan, Chetna Parkashan, Ludhiana, Punjab, India