Prem Parkash (born 7 April 1932) is a writer from Punjab, India.

[1] He "is one of the major short story writers in post-1947 East Punjabi literature.

Parkash's native village is Bdeenpur which once belonged to the Nabha dynasty.

Parkash then taught in a primary school from 1953 up to 1962 then worked as an editor of an Urdu newspaper in Jalandhar from 1964 up to 1969 and then as a sub-editor for Hind Samachar from 1969 to 1990.

In 1990, he started a literary magazine Lakeer in collaboration with Surjit Hans.