Amrita Pritam, recipient of the Janpath Award- India’s most prestigious literary prize, for her Kagaz Te Canvas (Punjabi), Sahitya Academy Award, Padma Shri and many other such honours, wrote for the common people in Punjabi and was known for her simplicity and purity of thought. Where she wrote the acclaimed and laurels-winning Pinjar or the Raseedi Tikat, she  also wrote the thrilling Doctor Dev, Kore Kaagaz (blank pages) and Unchaas Din (49 days). She has in total penned 28 novels, 18 anthologies of prose, 5 short stories and 16 miscellaneous prose volumes. Much of her writing has been translated into English, Hindi and some European languages.