Awards and Honours
He have received about 17 awards including Gianpith award (in 1999), Padma Shri, Shiromani Sahitkar Award, Punjab Sahitya Akademi Award (1979), the Soviet Land Nehru Award (1986), Bhai Veer Singh Fiction Award (1992) and more.
- Best Fiction Book Award (Four times, in 1966, 1967, 1968, 1972)
- Nanak Singh Novelist Award, 1975
- Sahitya Akademi Award, 1975
- Punjab Sahitya Akademy Award, 1979
- Soviet Land Nehru Award, 1986
- Punjabi Sahitya Akademy Award, 1989
- Shiromani Sahitkar Award, 1992
- Bhai Veer Singh Galap Puraskar, 1992
- Pash Award, 1995
- Uttar Pradesh Hindi Sahitya Samellan Samman, 1997
- Padam Shri, 1998
- Jnanpith Literary Award 2000
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