Punjabi novelist and Sahitya Akademi Awardee, Jaswant Singh Kanwal, passed away aged 100 at his house in Dhudike village in Moga district in Punjab on Saturday morning after a brief illness. Known as the 'writer of movements', Kanwal penned nearly 100 books and novels. He had received the Sahitya Akademi Award for his novel 'Taushali Di Hanso' in 1997.