Jumai Khan Azad (5 August 1930 – 29 December 2013) was an Indian

poet A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator ( thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral or writte ...

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from Pratapgarh, Uttar Pradesh,

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. He received the Awadhi Academy Award and Lokabandhu Rajnarayan Memorial Award.

Biography

Azad was born in Gobri village in Pratapgarh in

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to father Siddiqui Ahmed and mother Hameeda Bano. Azad published 21 books of

poetry Poetry (derived from the Greek ''poiesis'', "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre − to evoke meanings i ...

. He died on 29 December 2013.

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