Gurbax Singh Frank | |
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![]() Singh Frank in 2018 | |
Born | 1 September 1935 |
Died | 14 April 2022 Amritsar, Punjab, India | (aged 86)
Language | Punjabi |
Citizenship | India |
Gurbax Singh Frank (1 September 1935 – 14 April 2022) 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. [1] [2]
Frank completed his PhD on the short stories of Kartar Singh Duggal from Institute of Oriental Studies, Moscow, in 1975. [3] He spent a total of 10 years in Soviet Union (1969–1976 and 1988–1991) 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. [2]
He became a professor at the Guru Nanak Dev University in 1979 and retired as head of the department in 1995. [2]
He died on 14 April 2022 in Amritsar. [4] [5]