Indian-Origin Poet Rajvinder Singh Passed Away in Berlin
New Delhi: Prominent German poet Rajvinder Singh passed away in a Berlin hospital following a brief illness on Saturday. He was 66 years old.
Singh was a three-time German Poet Laureate and a prominent poet, journalist, and short-story writer in the German literary circles.
His Punjabi at Heart is a popularly known anthology consisting of 2 poems in Punjabi and 12 poems in German. He considered the German language as ‘stepmother-tongue’ after Punjabi.
One of his famous works includes translating a 380-page novel Parsa from Punjabi to German. Novelist Gurdial Singh penned the work in 1991.
Singh also wrote in English, Hindi, and Urdu languages. He was considered the poet laureate of Trier in 2007, and his poems are inscribed in stone and found across the city.
Rajvinder Singh was born in Kapurthala, Punjab, and spent his formative years in Jammu and Chandigarh before moving to Berlin, Germany, in 1981. He was alumni of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study (IIAS), Shimla, and had launched a Nobel for India campaign in 2013.
Singh is survived by his wife and daughter.
(Avya Mathur)
