Gurbaksh Singh

Gurbaksh Singh (1895–1977) was an Indian novelist and short story writer with more than fifty books to his credit in Punjabi. He is also considered the father of modern Punjabi prose and received Sahitya Akademi Fellowship, New Delhi in 1971. Armed with an engineering degree from the Thomson Engineering College (present day IIT Roorkee), he also studied Civil Engineering at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.