Dev (born 5 September 1947) is a Punjabi artist and poet based in

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Biography

Dev was born in 1947 in

Jagraon Jagraon is a city and a municipal council, a rural police district and a sub-division of the Ludhiana district in the Indian state of Punjab. Jagraon is more than three centuries old. Jagraon is at almost the geographical center of the state, f ...

, Punjab, India. When he was 5 he moved to

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, where his father was working for the British Railways. He returned to India in 1964. He published his first poetry collection in 1969. In 1979, he moved to Switzerland because he was highly influenced by Swiss artist

Paul Klee Paul Klee (; 18 December 1879 – 29 June 1940) was a Swiss-born German artist. His highly individual style was influenced by movements in art that included expressionism, cubism, and surrealism. Klee was a natural draftsman who experimented wi ...

. Since then he has lived in various cities in and outside Europe such as Bern, Barcelona and Buenos Aires. He currently lives in Rubigen, Bern.

Works

* Vidhroh - 1969 * Doosre Kinare Di Talash * Matlabi Mitti * Prashan Te Parvaz * Hun Ton Pehchan * Shabdant

Awards

* Schromani Pravesi Panjabi Sahitkar - 1992 *

Sahitya Akademi award The Sahitya Akademi Award is a literary honour in India, which the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, annually confers on writers of the most outstanding books of literary merit published in any of the 22 languages of the ...

for his Punjabi poetry collection ''Shabant'' - 2001

References

{{Authority control Artists from Punjab, India Poets from Punjab, India 1947 births Living people Recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Award in Punjabi People of Punjabi descent