Amarjit Chandan is a known writer for Punjabi language, born in Nairobi, Kenya. Currently Amarjit Chandan resided in London, UK.

Amarji Chandan graduated from Panjab University in India, and then joined the Maoist Naxalite movement, and subsequently spent two years in solitary confinement. As a Punjabi writer he had had been contributing by writing punjabi novels, poetries and essays. He worked for various Punjabi literary and political magazines, including the Bombay based Economic and Political Weekly before migrating to England in 1980, where he lives with his wife and two sons.

Punjabi Writer, Amarjit Chandan has published 8 collections of poetry and two books of essays in Punjabi and two in the Persian script in Lahore. He also write one in English.

Amarjit has edited many anthologies of world poetry and fiction, including two collections of so-called British Punjabi poetry and short stories. His work is included in many anthologies in Punjabi language|Punjabi]], Hindi and English published in India and abroad. His poetry has been published in Greek, Turkish, Hungarian and Romanian and Indian languages. He has participated in many poetry readings in England, Hungary and at Columbia University. He has translated work by, among others, Brecht, Neruda, Ritsos, Hikmet and Cardenal into Punjabi.

He worked as a creative writer with the Punjab Drama Repertory Co., Chandigarh in the late 1970s and adapted Brecht’s play The Caucasian Chalk Circle and Tagore’s Mukatdhara in Punjabi. He was awarded Young Writer Fellowship by the Lalit Kala [Fine Arts] Akademi, India in 1980.

He is currently working on a Punjabi translation of Miguel de Cervantes’ Don Quixote. His own works include Jarhan, Beejak, Chhanna, and Guthali. He is a regular contributor to apnaorg.com and Sanjh magazine. Recently a poem of his has been carved in Stone both in English and Punjabi in Oxford.