There is a substantial body of Punjabi literature written outside Punjab, mostly in Britain and Canada, and it is barely read inside Punjab.
Amarjit Chandan, in London, is among the most significant living Punjabi poets and has published in Punjabi for fifty years. Ajmer Rode and Navtej Bharati in Canada wrote Leela, one of the largest single works of Punjabi poetry. Sadhu Binning and others in Vancouver formed the Punjabi writers' circles of the 1980s.
The subject matter is different from Punjab's own: work in factories, racism, the second generation, the return visit, and the specific loneliness of a person who is from two places and at home in neither.
There is also a large body of English-language writing by writers of Punjabi origin, which is read internationally and is a different literature again.
The Punjabi writing of the diaspora and the Punjabi writing of Punjab have very little institutional contact, no shared prizes and almost no shared publishing.
The British Punjabi writing is the largest body, in English and in Punjabi, and it runs from the first generation's memoirs to writers born in Southall and Birmingham.
The Canadian Punjabi literary scene publishes in Punjabi and has its own presses, prizes and magazines, and it is largely invisible in India.
What almost none of it gets is translation in either direction. The diaspora writing is read where it is made and the Punjab writing is read in Punjab.