He won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2018 for his poetry collection Kone Da Suraj.
[1] Mohanjit is from village Adliwala, Amritsar district, Punjab, India.
During the Indo-Pakistani war of 1971, his writings were published in Nagmani magazine under the title ‘Dispatches from the Western Front’.
[2] He won the Sahitya Akademi Award for the poetry collection Kone Da Suraj in 2018.
In 2020, he announced that he had returned his award in support of the 2020-2021 Indian farmers' protest.