Santokh Singh Dhir (1920–2010) was an Indian writer and poet who wrote in Punjabi. He was known for his stories Koee Ik Sawaar, Sanjhi Kandh and Saver Hon Tak. He was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award for his story collection Pakhi (1991) in 1996 by the Government of India. He died on 8 February 2010. Singh was born on 2 December 1920, to a Sikh father and Hindu mother, in a little village of Dadheri that now falls under Fatehgarh district of Indian Punjab. He first worked as a tailor and then as a journalist for Preetlarhi, a monthly magazine but was temporary. Later, he started as a full-time writer and wrote about 50 books including novels, story anthologies, poetic and an autobiography, Brahaspati (1998).