Gurbax Singh Frank


Gurbax Singh Frank was a Punjabi scholar and translator. In 2011, he was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Translation Prize for his book, 'Bharat Nikki Kahani', an anthology of short stories of various Indian languages.

Biography

Frank completed his PhD on the short stories of Kartar Singh Duggal from Institute of Oriental Studies, Moscow, in 1975. He spent a total of 10 years in Soviet Union and translated literary works of Russian authors like Rasul Gamzatov, Boris Polevoy, Chinghiz Aitmatov, Leo Tolstoy, Maxim Gorky, V Pannova, and Mikhail Lermontov into Punjabi.
He became a professor at the Guru Nanak Dev University in 1979 and retired as head of the department in 1995.
He died on 14 April 2022 in Amritsar.

Works

Criticism

  • 1984