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Sukhbir, (Punjabi: ਸੁਖਬੀਰ, Hindi: सुखबीर) (9 July 1925 – 22 February 2012), alias Balbir Singh is a Punjabi novelist, short-story writer, poet and an essayist. He was born on 9 July 1925 to S. Mansha Singh and Smt. Shiv Kaur in Mumbai, India. He was suffering from multiple complications after severe cardiac arrest and died on 22 February 2012.〔()〕〔()〕〔()〕〔()〕〔http://www.countercurrents.org/date050312.htm〕 Sukhbir has been writing and publishing for the last fifty years. He has authored 7 novels, 11 short story collections, 5 poetry collections among many translations of world literature, essays, letters and book reviews. ==Personal life== Sukhbir alias Balbir Singh was the eldest of all his siblings, who included 3 brothers and 3 sisters. He adopted the pen name Sukhbir after partition, when he was arrested during the student unrest in Mumbai in 1950. He had already started publishing in literary magazines and was a known name as a budding writer. While he was in jail in Nasik, one of his editor friends in whose magazine his poems were to be published, changed the name to Sukhbir, to avoid authorities attention. Subsequently, Sukhbir chose to retain Sukhbir as his pen name, as many other writers with the name of Balbir Singh had sprung up by then and were cashing in on his established name. His father, S. Mansha Singh, was a civil engineer in Indian Railways. He was a religious man, but with rational and a liberal attitude. He was the first person to have opened Sukhbir up to rational interpretation of his own religion, and subsequently, to everything in life. He can safely be called the first influence in Sukhbir's life which remained throughout. Sukhbir's early schooling was in his native village Beerampur in Punjab. His father being in the Railways, the family was always on the move. When he was in the 6th standard, the family shifted to Mumbai. He did his subsequent schooling in Podar High School, Mumbai. He completed his graduation from Khalsa College, Mumbai, after which he moved to Khalsa College, Amritsar to pursue his Masters in Punjabi in 1958, which earned him the rank of university topper and a gold medal. Much as he wanted to, he could not pursue a post-graduation in Psychology. He had started publishing in the leading Punjabi journal of the time, Preet Lari edited by legendary Gurbaksh Singh Preetlari. Simultaneously, he had started taking interest in the activities of Communist Party of India, and had great regard for its founder Puran Chand Joshi or P. C. Joshi. This interest did not last long as he soon got disillusioned with the political tactics that led to the severe humiliation and expulsion of Puran Chand Joshi from the party. He reflected hard on the communist ideology and chose to step aside to find his own way, while remaining committed to the Marxist thought and philosophy. Before taking up writing as a full-time career, Sukhbir took up different jobs of advertisement-writer, college lecturer, etc. to earn his livelihood. By this time, he had got married to Jasbir Kaur. Soon thereafter, he left his job of lecturer in Khalsa College, Mumbai to take up writing as a full-time career, which was unusual and a risky proposition at that time considering the fate of writers in the country. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sukhbir (writer)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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