Sant Singh Sekhon - Selected Writings

Author: Tejwant Singh GillEditor(s): Tejwant Singh GillPublisher: Sahitya AkademiYear: 2005Language: EnglishPages: 578ISBN/UPC (if available): 81-260-1999-9 DescriptionThe volume includes selected writings of Sant Singh Sekhon, the most innovative writer of Punjabi in the 20th century. Starting his literary career as a poet of English, albeit of great promise, he shifted to Punjabi out of deep alignment with Punjab, its language, literature and culture. Though modern literary forms, short story and one-act play for example, may have originated with his predecessors, they owe their beginning to him. If criticism has come to perform a directive role in interplay with writings in Punjabi, it was largely because he devised it as a creative genre. Included here are his critical articles, covering Punjabi poets of all the eras. Sekhon was also a prolific translator, professing a distinct theory of translation. Neither literal conversion nor transliteration seemed veritable to him. Samples of