Punjab-born German poet laureate Rajvinder Singh dies

Chandigarh, December 17 Punjab-born German writer and poet laureate Rajvinder Singh passed away after a brief illness at a Berlin hospital, his family said. He was 66. He is survived by his wife and a daughter. Based in Berlin since...

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Updated At : 11:31 AM Dec 18, 2021 IST

Chandigarh, December 17

Punjab-born German writer and poet laureate Rajvinder Singh passed away after a brief illness at a Berlin hospital, his family said. He was 66. He is survived by his wife and a daughter.

Based in Berlin since January 1981, Rajvinder’s latest project was to make literature in modern Indian languages accessible to the wider world through translations. To this end, he was translating Punjabi novel ‘Parsa’, by Jnanpith Award-winning novelist Gurdial Singh, into German. And, to get the hang of the Malwai Punjabi culture and the dialect, Rajvinder was visiting the places around which the novel revolves. — IANS