Kunwar Viyogi, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Kunwar Viyogi

Dogri writer

Date of Birth: 04-Sep-1940

Place of Birth: Samba district, Jammu and Kashmir, India

Date of Death: 01-Jan-0001

Profession: writer, poet

Nationality: India

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Kunwar Viyogi (4 September 1940 – 2015), born Randhir Singh Jamwal, is the only Indian Air Force officer to have received the Sahitya Akademi Award for his long Dogri poem titled 'Ghar' in 1980.
He used 'Ghar' (Home) as a peg and strung together 238 four lines verses embracing a wide variety of subjects and ideas and feelings into a long poem.
He is also the youngest poet in the history of Sahitya Akademi to have received this honour.
Viyogi is noted for introducing the sonnet, a relatively new and unexplored genre for Dogri writers, into Dogri literature.