he most admired and rated highest were Guru Nanak Dev, Guru Arjan Dev, Shah Hussain, Waris Shah, Bulle Shah, Mir Taqi Mir, Lorca, Rabindranath Tagore, Noon Meem Rashid, and Puran Singh. Many prolific poets and scholars did their PhDs under him, including Attar Singh, Tirlok Singh Kanwar, Atamjit Singh, Mohinder Kaur Gill and Satinder Singh. Honours 1969: Sahitya Akademi Award, Sahitya Akademi, India, for Na Dhuppe Na ਛਾਂਵੇਂ 1987: Kabir Samman – one of the highest literary honours in India given by the Madhya Pradesh Government. 1994: Saraswati Samman – award for literary excellence in India, in 1994: Sahitya Akademi Fellowship, New Delhi – a title only one other Punjabi writer received; Sardar Gurbax Singh Preet Lari. Soviet Land Nehru Award – a now extinct award highly coveted while it existed 2002: Dhaliwal Sanmaan – the highest award presented to him by the Punjabi Sahitya Akademi, Ludhiana Bibliography A Light Within: Selected Poems of Harbhajan Singh, tr. by S. C. Narula, Sahitya Akademi, 1998. . The Spirit of Khalsa – Three centuries of Interface, 2000. Sheikh Farid (Hindi). Hind Pocket Books, 2002. . Bulleshah (Hindi). Hind Pocket Books, 2003. . Works in translation Ni Chhiyan Ni Tavaro (Rajasthani), tr. by Chandra Prakash Deval. Sahitya Akademi, 1997. . Punjabni Lokakatha (Gujarati), National Book Trust, 2000. . References Further reading Harbhajan Singh, Punjabi Poet Who's who of Indian Writers, 1999: End-century Edition, by Kartik Chandra Dutt, Ramakanta Rath, Sahitya Akademi. . Page 448. External links Books by Harbhajan Singh 1920 births 2002 deaths Poets from Lahore Punjabi-language poets Delhi University alumni Academic staff of Delhi University Recipients of the Saraswati Samman Award Recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Award in Punjabi Recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship Indian literary historians Indian Sikhs 20th-century Indian poets Indian male poets Poets from Assam 20th-century Indian male writers