Ram Sarup Ankhi

Ram Sarup Ankhi (Punjabi: ਰਾਮ ਸਰੂਪ ਅਣਖੀ) was a Sahitya Akademi Award winning Punjabi writer, novelist and poet of Punjab. He started as a poet but ended up as a fiction writer. He received Sarb Shresht Sahitkaar award in 2009.n

Early life

Ankhi was born on 28 August 1932, in the village of Dhanaula in [[barnala

district]] of Indian Punjab. He left his college-study and did agriculture and then got a job as a school teacher and got retired in 1990. He won many awards like Sahitya Akademi award for his novel 'Kothe Kharak Singh' in 1987

Career

He started his career as a poet but ended as fiction writer. There are 15 novels, eight-story-books and five poem collections to his credit. He mostly wrote about the village life of Punjab; about farmer suicide and indebtedness and drug addiction etc. His well-known works includes Kothe Kharhak Singh (1985), Partapi (1993), Dulle Di Dhab (2003), Salphas, Kanak Da Qatleam. Malhe Jharhian (1988) and Apni Mitti De Rukh (2004) are the autobiographies.

Awards

He received the Sahitya Akademi Award given by Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters in 1987 for his novel Kothe Kharhak Singh. He received many more including, Kartar Singh Dhaliwal award of 1992 from Panjabi Sahit Akademi, Ludhiana and Sarb Shresht Sahitkaar award in 2009.

Notable books

Stories

Many of his books and short stories are adopted into films. His Gelo novel is made into a Punjabi feature film directed by Manbhawan Singh releasing on 5th August 2016.

• Sutta Naag (1966)
• Kachcha Dhaga (1967)
• Manukh Di Maut (1968)
• Teesi Da Ber (1970)
• Khaara Duddh (1973)
• Adha Admi (1977)
• Gelo
• Kadon Phirange Din (1985)
• Kidhar Jaawan (1992)
• Chhad Ke Na Ja (1994)

Novels

• Kothe Kharhak Singh (1985)
• Partapi (1993)
• Dulle Di Dhab (2003)
• Kaidan

Autobiographies

• Malhe Jharhian (1988)
• Apni Mitti De Rukh (2004)

• Ankhi, Ram Sarup (1985). Kadon Phirange Din. Panjabi Writers' Co-operative Society. 
• Ankhi, Ram Sarup (1992). Kidhar Jaawan. Raghbir Rachna Pralashan. 
• Ankhi, Ram Sarup (2006). Kaidan. Unistar Books Pvt. Ltd. p. 148. ISBN 978-81-7142-043-8. 
• Ankhi, Ram Sarup (2004). Apni Mitti De Rukh. Lok Geet Prakashan. p. 127.