Shiv Kumar Batalvi Poetry - Shiv Kumar Batalvi Shayari, Urdu Ghazal, Nazam Collection

Shiv Kumar Batalvi (23 October 1936 – 6 May 1973) was a Punjabi language poet, who was most known for his romantic poetry, noted for its heightened passion, pathos, separation and lover's agony.He became the youngest recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1967, given by Sahitya Akademi (India's National Academy of Letters), for his epic verse play based on the ancient legend of Puran Bhagat, Loona (1965),now considered a masterpiece in modern Punjabi literature, and which also created a new genre, of modern Punjabi kissa. Today, his poetry stands in equal footing, amongst that by stalwarts of modern Punjabi poetry, like Mohan Singh (poet) and Amrita Pritam, all of whom are popular on both sides of Indo-Pakistan border. His worked as a Poet, author and playwright in the Genres of poetry, prose and play on the Subjects of Pathos and passion. One of his anthologies, Alvida (Farewell) was published posthumously in 1974, by the Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar. 'Shiv Kumar Batalvi Award' for Best Writer, is given each year. He died on 6 May 1973 at the age of 35 in Kir Mangyal, Pathankot, India.