Gurbax Singh Frank

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]

Gurbax Singh Frank
Singh Frank in 2018
Born	(1935-09-01)1 September 1935
Died	14 April 2022(2022-04-14) (aged 86) Amritsar, Punjab, India
Language	Punjabi
Citizenship	India

Biography

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]

Works

Books

• Sahit sambad [Literature] (in Punjabi). Panjabi Writers' Co-operative Society. 1987.
• Sabhiachar ate Panjabi sabhiachar [Culture and Punjabi Culture] (in Punjabi). Panjabi Writers' Co-operative Society. 1987.

Criticism

• 1984^[6]

Translations

• Gamzatov, Rasul (1967). Mera Dagistan [My Dagistan] (in Punjabi). Gracious Books (published 1971). ISBN 9789380906409.
• Sarkadi, Imre (1961). Buzdil [Coward] (in Punjabi). National Book Shop (published 1997). ISBN 978-81-7116-203-1. {{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)