Maikash Akbarabadi
Maikash Akbarabadi (1902–1991) was a writer in the Urdu language. Syed Mohammed Ali Shah Maikash Akbarabadi was born in 1902, in the Mewa Katra family, which traces its links in India to Mughal Empire, Moghul times.
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Akhtar Orenvi
Akhtar ( fa, links=no, ) means "star" in Persian. It is a unisex name. It is also a common surname. A variant spelling is Akhter.
Notable people with the given name or surname include:
Given name Akhtar
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Akhtar Sheerani
Akhtar Shirani (born Muhammad Dawood Khan; 4 May 1905 – 9 September 1948; also spelled Sheerani or Sherani), was an Urdu poet. He is considered to be one of the leading romantic poets of Urdu language.
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Ada Jafri
Ada Jafarey ( ur, : ) , often spelled Ada Jafri (22 August 1924 – 12 March 2015), was a Pakistani poet who is regarded as the first major female Urdu poet to be published and has been called "The First Lady of Urdu Poetry". She was also an ...
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Aizaz Ahmad Azar
Aizaz Ahmad Azar (Punjabi, ur, c. 1942 – 16 May 2015; sometimes spelled Ezaz or Aizaz Ahmed Azar), also known by his pen name Aizaz, was a Pakistani Urdu, Punjabi poet and writer. Aizaz wrote ten to sixteen books on poetry, including gazals, ...
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Jamiluddin Aali
Nawabzada Mirza Jamiluddin Ahmed Khan PP, HI (20 January 1925 – 23 November 2015), also known as Jamiluddin Aali or Aaliji, was a Pakistani poet, critic, playwright, essayist, columnist, and scholar.
Early life and career
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Khwaja Ahmad Abbas
Khwaja Ahmad Abbas (7 June 1914 – 1 June 1987) was an Indian film director, screenwriter, novelist, and journalist in Urdu, Hindi and English. He won four National Film Awards in India. Internationally, his films won the Palme d'Or (Golden ...
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Mirza Adeeb
Mirza Adeeb, ( ur, —; 4 April 1914 – 31 July 1999), also known as Meerza Adeeb, (—), was a Pakistani Urdu writer of dramas and short stories. His plays and short stories won him six prizes and awards from the .
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Chaudhry Afzal Haq
Chaudhry Afzal Haq (1891–8 January 1942) was born in a Muslim family, a writer, humanitarian, leader and co-founder of Majlis-e-Ahrar-e-Islam, and a senior political figure in the history of Indian subcontinent. He worked to help the poor and ...
Anwaar Ahmad
Anwaar Ahmad ( ur, , born 11 June 1947, Multan) is an Urdu short story writer, scholar and academician from Pakistan. Presently, he is serving as the Director General at University of Gujrat's Sialkot Campus.He has been associated with Bahaudd ...
Ashfaq Ahmed
Ashfaq Ahmed Khan ( ur, ; 22 August 1925 – 7 September 2004) was a writer, playwright and broadcaster from Pakistan. His works in Urdu included novels, short stories and plays for television and radio of Pakistan. He received the President's ...
Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi
Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi ( ur, ) born Ahmad Shah Awan ( ur, ) (20 November 1916 - 10 July 2006) was an Urdu language Pakistani poet, journalist, literary critic, dramatist and short story author. He wrote 50 books on topics such as poetry, fiction ...
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Saeed Ahmad Akhtar
Saeed Ahmad Akhtar was an Urdu poet, playwright and educationist. He published his first Urdu poetry collection ''Diyaar e Shab'' in 1976. The book got several awards including the Abbasin Arts Council Award for the best book of the year. He publi ...
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Waheed Akhtar
Syed Waheed Akhtar ( ur, ) (12 August 1934, in Aurangabad (Deccan) – 13 December 1996) was an Urdu poet, writer, critic, orator, and a Muslim scholar and philosopher.
Works
According to Shamsur Rahman Faruqi, "Wahid Akhtar, regarded by m ...
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Amjad Islam Amjad
Amjad Islam Amjad, PP, Sitara-e-Imtiaz (Urdu: امجد اسلام امجد) (born 4 August 1944) is an Urdu poet, drama writer and lyricist from Pakistan. The author of more than 40 books in a career spanning 50 years,Ally Adnan (Septembe ...
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Majeed Amjad
Majeed Amjad ( Punjabi, ur, ) (29 June 1914 – 11 May 1974) was an Urdu poet from Pakistan. One newspaper described him as a "philosophical poet of depth and sensitivity". His ghazals have also been sung by various Pakistani singers.
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Rasheed Amjad
Rasheed Amjad (Urdu: ڈاکٹر رشید امجد) was an Urdu fiction writer, critic and scholar. He was born on 5 March 1940 in Srinagar, Indian occupied Kashmir but migrated to Pakistan after independence and later on lived in Rawalpindi, P ...
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Mir Amman
Mir Amman (1748–1806) was an employee of Fort William College at Calcutta, variously also known as ''Mir Amman of Delhi'', ''Mir Amman of Dilhi'', ''Mir Amman Dihlavi'', and ''Meer Ummun''.
He was best known for his translation of Amir Khus ...
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Rais Amrohvi
Rais Amrohvi ( ur, ), whose real name was Syed Muhammad Mehdi (1914-1988) was a Pakistani scholar, Urdu poet, paranormal investigator, and psychoanalyst and elder brother of Jaun Elia. He was known for his style of qatanigari (quatrain writin ...
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Satyapal Anand
Satyapal Anand ( hi, सत्य पाल आनंद , ur, ; born April 24, 1931) is an Indian-American poet, critic and writer. He has written several fictional and poetry books in four languages: English, Urdu, Hindi and Punjabi. He has ...
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Sahar Ansari Sahar Ansari, TI (Urdu: سحر انصاری) (Born: 27 Dec 1939, Aurangabad, Maharashtra) is an Urdu poet and linguist from Karachi, Pakistan. He remained associated with the University of Karachi as Professor and Chairman of Urdu department.
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Syed Amin Ashraf
Syed Amin Ashraf (10 July 1930 7 February 2013) was an Urdu Ghazal poet and critic. He earned his PhD in English Literature from Aligarh Muslim University on the topic ''Major Themes and Imagery in Sarogini Naidu's Poetry'', and later served ...
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Syed Waheed Ashraf
Syed Waheed Ashraf is an Indian Sufi scholar and poet in Persian and Urdu. Ashraf received his B.A., M.A. and PhD (1965) degrees from Aligarh Muslim University. The title of his doctoral dissertation was ''A Critical Edition of Lataife Ashra ...
Abul Hasan Ali Hasani Nadwi
Abul Hasan Ali Hasani Nadwi (also known as Ali Miyan; 5 December 1913 – 31 December 1999) was a leading Islamic scholar, thinker, writer, preacher, reformer and a Muslim public intellectual of 20th century India and the author of numerous boo ...
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Abul Kalam Azad
Abul Kalam Ghulam Muhiyuddin Ahmed bin Khairuddin Al- Hussaini Azad (; 11 November 1888 – 22 February 1958) was an Indian independence activist, Islamic theologian, writer and a senior leader of the Indian National Congress. Following I ...
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Idris Azad
Idris Azad ( ur, , Idrees Ahmad ur, ) born on 7 August 1969, is an author, philosopher, novelist, poet, dramatist and columnist. He has written several books on fiction, journalism, critic, poetry, philosophy, mysticism and art.Jagan Nath Azad
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Muhammad Husain Azad
Muhammad Husain Azad ( ur, — ; 5 May 1830 – 22 January 1910) was a scholar and an Urdu writer who wrote both prose and poetry, but he is mostly remembered for his prose. His best known work is Aab-e-Hayat ("Elixir of Life").
Ayub Sabir
Muhammad Ayub Sabir ( ur, ) is a Pakistani writer.
He has received Sitara e Imtiaz, Iqbal award and Pride of Performance award from Government of Pakistan for his literary works.
Personal life
Sabir was born in Haripur, Pakistan. He has li ...
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Amjad Parvez
Amjad Parvez ( ur, ) (born 28 March 1945) is a Pakistani engineer, writer, and a singer.Bekal Utsahi
Muhammad Shafi Ali Khan (1 June 1928 – 3 December 2016), popularly known as Bekal Utsahi, was an Indian poet, writer and politician. He was a congressman close to Indira Gandhi and a Member of Parliament in the Upper House Rajya sabha. He rece ...
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Obaidullah Baig
Obaidullah Baig (1 October 1936 – 22 June 2012) ( ur, عبيدالله بيگ) was a scholar, Urdu writer/novelist, columnist, media expert and documentary filmmaker from Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan.
Personal life
Born in Rampur, India in ...
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Fatima Surayya Bajia
Fatima Surayya Bajia (; 1 September 1930 – 10 February 2016) was an Urdu novelist, playwright and drama writer from Pakistan. She was awarded various awards at home and abroad including Japan's highest civil award in recognition of her works. ...
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Ahmad Bashir
Ahmad Bashir ( Punjabi, Urdu: احمد بشیر; March 24, 1923 – December 25, 2004) was a writer, journalist, intellectual and film director from Pakistan. He was the father of leading television artists Bushra Ansari, Asma Abbas, Sum ...
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Rajinder Singh Bedi
Rajinder Singh Bedi (1 September 1915 – 1984) was an Indian Urdu writer of the progressive writers' movement and a playwright, who later worked in Hindi cinema as a film director, screenwriter and dialogue writer and he is grandfather Rajat B ...
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Begum Akhtar Riazuddin
Begum Akhtar Riazuddin also spelt Riaz-ud-din or Riaz-ud-deen (born 15 October 1928) is a Pakistani feminist activist who is also the first modern Urdu- travelogue writer. She has received many awards in recognition of her efforts.
Life a ...
Patras Bokhari
Syed Ahmed Shah (Urdu: ), commonly known as Patras Bokhari (October 1, 1898–December 5, 1958), was a Pakistani humorist, writer, broadcaster and diplomat who served as a Permanent Representative of Pakistan to the United Nations.
Born in Pes ...
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Baba Mohammad Yahya Khan
Baba Mohammad Yahya Khan (Urdu بابا محمد یحیی خان) is a Sufi,writer,Traveller,artist. He is a spiritual mentor of many people around the globe. Baba ji introduces himself as a
Durvaish of Malaamti Order of Spiritualism. Bab ...
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Mohinder Pratap Chand
Mohinder Pratap Chand (1 August 1935 – 19 October 2020) was an Urdu writer and poet of India who promoted Urdu language and literature in India.
Career
In Kurukshetra University
Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra (KUK) is a university ...
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Krishan Chander
Krishan Chander (23 November 1914 – 8 March 1977) was an Indian Urdu and Hindi writer of short stories and novels. Some of his works have also been translated in English. He was a prolific writer, penning over 20 novels, 30 collections o ...
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Harcharan Chawla
Harcharan Dass Chawla (, November 4, 1926 – November 5, 2001) was an Urdu writer.
Born in Mianwali (now Pakistan), he moved to Delhi, India as a refugee as a result of the 1947 partition of India. The event served as the backdrop for his fir ...
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Ismat Chughtai
Ismat Chughtai (21 August 1915 – 24 October 1991) was an Indian Urdu novelist, short story writer, liberal humanist and filmmaker. Beginning in the 1930s, she wrote extensively on themes including female sexuality and femininity, middle-class ...
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Kausar Chandpuri
Kausar Chandpuri (8 August 1900 – 13 June 1990) was an Indian Unani physician and Urdu writer who gained repute as a novelist, short story writer and literary critic.
Biography
Kausar Chandpuri was the takhallus of Ali Kausar who was born on ...
Khwaja Mir Dard
Khwaja Mir Dard (1720-1785) ( ur, ) was a poet of the Delhi School and a Sufi saint of the Naqshbandi
The Naqshbandi ( fa, نقشبندی)), Neqshebendi ( ku, نهقشهبهندی), and Nakşibendi (in Turkish) is a major Sunni ...
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Deputy Nazir Ahmad Dehlvi
Maulvi Nazir Ahmad Dehlvi, also known as Deputy Nazir Ahmad, was an Urdu novel writer, social and religious reformer, and orator.
Even if today’s he’s best known for his novels, he wrote over 30 books on subjects such as law, logic, ethics ...
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Abdul Qavi Desnavi
Abdul Qavi Desnavi (1 November 1930 – 7 July 2011) was an Indian Urdu language writer, critic, bibliographer and linguist. He wrote many books on Urdu literature. His works included about Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, Mirza Ghalib and Allama Mu ...
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Attash Durrani
Attash Durrani ( ur, ; 22 January 1952 – 30 November 2018) was a Pakistani linguist, researcher, critic, author, educationist, and gemologist. He wrote more than 275 books and approximately 500 papers in Urdu and English. His main disciplines o ...
Faiz Ahmed Faiz
Faiz Ahmad ''Faiz'' (13 February 1911 – 20 November 1984; Urdu, Punjabi:
فیض احمد فیض) was a Pakistani poet, and author of Urdu and Punjabi literature. Faiz was one of the most celebrated Pakistani Urdu writers of his time. Out ...
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Farhat Ishtiaq
Farhat Ishtiaq ( ur, ) (born June 23, 1980), is a Pakistani writer, author and screenwriter. She is best known for her romantic novels ''Humsafar'', '' Mata-e-Jaan Hai Tu'', '' Diyar-e-Dil'', ''Dil se Nikle Hain jo Lafz'' and ''Woh Jo Qarz Rak ...
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Fouzia Bhatti
Fouzia Bhatti (Urdu: فوزیہ بھٹی) (born 9 August 1979) is an Urdu language author, poet, and columnist from Pakistan.
Career
Her given name is Fouzia Bano, but she opted to use her father's surname, Bhatti, in order to publish books. Ba ...
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Ahmed Faraz
Syed Ahmad Shah (), better known by his pen name Ahmed Faraz, ( 12 January 1931 – 25 August 2008) was a Pakistani Urdu poet, scriptwriter and became the founding Director General (later Chairman) of Pakistan Academy of Letters. He wrote ...
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Bushra Farrukh
Bushra Farrukh ( ur, بشری فارخ; born 16 February 1957), is a Pakistani poet. She was born in Peshawar. She is one of the female Urdu poets of Pakistan. She has served Pakistan Television and Radio Pakistan as an announcer. She is the ar ...
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Aslam Farrukhi
Aslam Farrukhi ( ur, ) (23 October 1923 – 15 June 2016) was an Urdu author, literary critic, linguist, scholar, and radio scriptwriter from Pakistan. He is also known for writing children's books. He remained associated as a professor and ch ...
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Shamsur Rahman Faruqi
Shamsur Rahman Faruqi (30 September 1935 – 25 December 2020) was an Indian Urdu language poet, author, critic and theorist. He is known for ushering modernism to Urdu literature. He formulated fresh models of literary appreciation that combi ...
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Mehr Lal Soni Zia Fatehabadi
Mehr or Mihr may refer to:
Persian names
* Mehr, an alternative name for Mithra, a Zoroastrian divinity
* Mehr (month), the seventh month of the year and the sixteenth day of the month of the Iranian and Zoroastrian calendars
* Mehr's day, or ' ...
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Farman Fatehpuri
Farman Fatehpuri ( ur, ) (born Syed Dildar Ali ( ur, ), 26 January 1926 – 3 August 2013) was an Urdu linguist, researcher, writer, critic and scholar of Pakistan.
He is widely regarded as a leading authority on the life and work of ...
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Niaz Fatehpuri
Niaz Fatehpuri (1884–1966) was the pen name of Niyaz Muhammed Khan, a Pakistani Urdu poet, writer, and polemicist. He was also the founder and editor of ''Nigar''. In 1962, he was awarded the Padma Bhushan by the President of India for "Litera ...
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Kanwal Feroze
Kanwal Feroze is a Pakistani scholar, poet, writer and journalist. He was born in 1938 in Ferozpur, India, and migrated to Sargodha, Pakistan. He moved to Lahore in 1958 and has since been playing an important role in the literary activities of t ...
Altaf Gauhar
Altaf Gauhar (17 March 1923 – 14 November 2000) was a civil servant, journalist, poet, and writer from Pakistan, close to the country’s first military dictator Ayub Khan to the point his detractors called him Khan’s Svengali and Goebbels.
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Mirza Ghalib
Mirza Beg Asadullah Khan (Urdu, fa, مرزا بیگ اسد اللہ خان; 27 December 1797 – 15 February 1869) also known as Mirza Ghalib (Urdu, fa}) was an Urdu and Persian language, Persian shayar (poet), poet of the 19th century Mughal Em ...
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Firaq Gorakhpuri
Raghupati Sahay (28 August 1896 – 3 March 1982), also known by his pen name Firaq Gorakhpuri, was an Indian writer, critic, and, according to one commentator, one of the most noted contemporary Urdu poets from India. He established himself ...
Tahir Aslam Gora
Tahir Aslam gora (born September 26,1963) is a Canadian broadcaster, editor, publisher, (English to Urdu) translator, and writer of fiction and non-fiction. He is a campaigner against the dangers of the Political Islam and the Muslim Brotherho ...
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Altaf Hussain Hali
Altaf Hussain Hali ( – ; 1837 – 31 December 1914), also known as Maulana Khawaja Hali, was an Urdu poet and writer.
Early life
He was born in Panipat to Aizad Baksh and was a descendant of Abu Ayyub al-Ansari. He was in the care of his el ...
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Muhammad Hamidullah
Muhammad Hamidullah ( ur, محمد حمیداللہ, translit=Muḥammad Ḥamīdullāh; 19 February 1908 – 17 December 2002) was a scholar of hadiths (''muhaddith)'' and Islamic law ( faqih) and a prolific academic author. A polymath with com ...
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Maulvi Abdul Haq
Maulvi Abdul Haq ( ur, ) (20 April 1870 – 16 August 1961) was a scholar and a linguist, whom some call '' Baba-e-Urdu'' ( ur, ) (''Father of Urdu''). Abdul Haq was a champion of the Urdu language and the demanded for it to be made the nat ...
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Shan-ul-Haq Haqqee
Shan-ul-Haq Haqqee ( ur, ), ''Sitara-e-Imtiaz, Tamgha-e-Quaid-i-Azam,'' was an Urdu poet, writer, journalist, broadcaster, translator, critic, researcher, linguist and lexicographer of Pakistan.
Early life
Born in Delhi, Haqqee acquired his B ...
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Zahida Hina
Zahida Hina (Urdu: زاہدہ حنا) is a noted Urdu columnist, essayist, short story writer, novelist and dramatist from Pakistan.
Life
Zahida was born in India, after the independence of Pakistan in 1947, her father, Muhammad Abul Khair, ...
Ashfaq Hussain
Ashfaq Hussain Zaidi, PP, (born 1 January 1951) is an Urdu poet and an author of more than 10 books of poetry and literary criticism. He is considered at least by one commentator to be an expert on the life and works of Urdu poets Faiz Ahmed ...
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Intizar Hussain
Intizar Hussain ( ur, ; 21 December 1925 – 2 February 2016) was a Pakistani writer of Urdu novels, short stories, poetry and nonfiction. He is widely recognised as a leading literary figure of Pakistan. He was among the finalists of the Man Bo ...
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Rafiq Hussain
Rafiq Husain ( ur, ) born Syed Rafiq Husain (14 May 1913 – 31 December 1990) was an Urdu writer, poet and critic from India.
Career
He served as Registrar of Co-Operative Society. On completion of his postgraduate studies, he joined Allaha ...
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Qurratulain Hyder
Qurratulain Hyder (20 January 1927 – 21 August 2007) was an Indian Urdu novelist and short story writer, an academic, and a journalist. One of the most outstanding and influential literary names in Urdu literature, she is best known for ...
Hasrat Mohani
Syed Fazl-ul-Hasan (1 January 1875 – 13 May 1951), known by his pen-name Hasrat Mohani, was an Indian activist, freedom fighter in the Indian independence movement and a noted poet of the Urdu language.
He coined the notable slogan ''Inqui ...
Ibn-e-Insha
Sher Muhammad Khan ( ur, ), ( Punjabi, ), better known by his pen name Ibn-e-Insha, ( ur, ), ( Punjabi, ) (15 June 1927 – 11 January 1978)Ibrahim Jalees
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Muhammad Iqbal
Sir Muhammad Iqbal ( ur, ; 9 November 187721 April 1938), was a South Asian Muslim writer, philosopher, Quote: "In Persian, ... he published six volumes of mainly long poems between 1915 and 1936, ... more or less complete works on philoso ...
Jigar Moradabadi
Ali Sikandar (6 April 1890 – 9 September 1960), known by his pen name as Jigar Moradabadi, was an Indian Urdu poet and ''ghazal'' writer. He received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1958 for his poetry collection "Atish-e-Gul", and was the secon ...
Ali Sardar Jafri
Ali Sardar Jafri (29 November 1913 – 1 August 2000) was an Indian writer of Urdu language. He was also a poet, critic and film lyricist.
Biography
Early life and education
Ali Sardar Jafri was born in Balrampur, Uttar Pradesh, where he sp ...
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Habib Jalib
Habib Jalib (24 March 1928 - 12 March 1993; Urdu, Punjabi: ) was a Pakistani revolutionary poet, left-wing activist who opposed martial law, authoritarianism and state oppression. Pakistani poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz said that he was the poet of ...
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Jameel Jalibi
Jameel Jalibi (Urdu: جمیل جالبی) was a noted linguist, critic, writer, and scholar of Urdu literature and linguistics from Pakistan. He also was Vice-Chancellor at the University of Karachi.
Early life
Jameel Jalibi was born Moham ...
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Khalid Jawed
Khalid Jawed (born 9 March 1960) is an Indian novelist. Some of his works include Aakhri Dawat, Nematkhana and Maut ki Kitab, critically acclaimed for his unique style and narrative. Currently he is serving as Professor at Jamia Millia Islamia, ...
Agha Shorish Kashmiri
Agha Shorish Kashmiri (1917–1975; ) was a Pakistani scholar, writer, debater, and a leader of the Majlis-e-Ahrar-e-Islam party. He was a figure of the freedom movement in the British Raj, as well as the chief editor of the weekly ''Chattan'' m ...
Khalique Ibrahim Khalique
Khalique Ibrahim Khalique (Urdu: خلیق ابراہیم خلیق) (b. 1926 - d. 2006) was a Pakistani documentary filmmaker and writer.
Life and works
Khalique Ibrahim Khalique was born in Hyderabad in 1926. He received his early education ...
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Ghulam Mustafa Khan
Ghulam Mustafa Khan, SI ( ur, ڈاکٹر غلام مصطفیٰ خان) (23 September 1912 – 25 September 2005) was a researcher, literary critic, linguist, author, scholar of Urdu literature and linguistics, educationist and religious a ...
Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
Wahiduddin Khan (1 January 1925 – 21 April 2021), known with the honorific "Maulana", was an Indian Islamic scholar and peace activist and author known for having written a commentary on the Quran and having translated it into contemporary E ...
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Syed Ahmed Khan
Sir Syed Ahmad Khan KCSI (17 October 1817 – 27 March 1898; also Sayyid Ahmad Khan) was an Indian Muslim reformer, philosopher, and educationist in nineteenth-century British India. Though initially espousing Hindu-Muslim unity, he ...
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Zafar Ali Khan
Zafar Ali Khan (1874– 27 November 1956) ( pnb, – ), also known as Maulana Zafar Ali Khan, was a Pakistani writer, poet, translator and a journalist who played an important role in the Pakistan Movement against the British Raj. He is genera ...
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Dushyant Kumar
Dushyant Kumar Tyagi (1 September 1931 – 30 December 1975) was an Indian poet of modern Hindi literature. He is famous for writing Hindi Ghazals, and is generally recognised as one of the foremost Hindi poets of the 20th century.
Personal l ...
Kanhaiya Lal Kapoor
Kanhaiyalal Kapoor (June 27, 1910 – 5 May 1980), also known as K.L Kapur, was an Urdu satirist known for his sharp wit, ironical style and derisive parodies. He was renowned for his unique writing style and natural talent as a result he was ...
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Maghfoor Ahmad Ajazi
Maghfoor Ahmad Ajazi (3 March 1900 – 26 September 1966) was a political activist from Bihar, prominent in the Indian independence movement.
Early life
Ajazi was born on 3 March 1900 in village Dihuli, Block Sakra of District Muzaf ...
Mohammad Ali Jauhar
Muhammad Ali Jauhar (10 December 1878 – 4 January 1931), was an Indian Muslim activist, prominent member of the All-India Muslim League, journalist and a poet, a leading figure of the Khilafat Movement and one of the founders of Jamia Millia ...
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Mubarak Ali
Mubarak Ali ( ur, ), (born 21 April 1941) is a Pakistani historian, activist and scholar. His main theme, in most of his books, has been that some history books written in Pakistan had been 'dictated' by the ruling class (the so-called 'Establ ...
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Josh Malihabadi
Josh Malihabadi (born Shabbir Hasan Khan; 5 December 1898 – 22 February 1982) popularly known as Shayar-e-Inqalab (poet of revolution) was a Pakistani poet and is regarded as one of the finest Urdu poets of the era of British India. Kno ...
Saadat Hasan Manto
Saadat Hasan Manto (; Punjabi, ur, , ; 11 May 1912 – 18 January 1955) was a Pakistani writer, playwright and author born in Ludhiana, who was active in British India and later, after the 1947 partition of India, in Pakistan.
Writing m ...
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Anwar Maqsood
Anwar Maqsood Hameedi (born 7 September 1939, Urdu:), popularly known as Anwar Maqsood, is a Pakistani scriptwriter, television presenter, satirist, humorist, and infrequent actor. He was well known for his drama write-ups for PTV in the late ...
Khadija Mastoor
Khadija Mastoor ( ur, , translit=K͟hadījah Mastūr; 11 December 192725 July 1982) was a Pakistani short story writer and novelist who worked in Urdu literature. Her novel '' Aangan'' is widely considered a literary masterpiece in Urd ...
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Abul Ala Maududi
Abul A'la al-Maududi ( ur, , translit=Abū al-Aʿlā al-Mawdūdī; – ) was an Islamic scholar, Islamist ideologue, Muslim philosopher, jurist, historian, journalist, activist and scholar active in British India and later, following the parti ...
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Mohsin Mighiana
Mohsin Maghiana (Urdu: محسن مگھیانہ) (born 1956) is a Pakistani physician, writer, columnist and humorist. He is mostly recognized by his literary and humorous works.
He took his medical degree from Faisalabad Medical University in 1 ...
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Mir Taqi Mir
Mir Muhammad Taqi (February 1723 – 20 September 1810), known as Mir Taqi Mir (also spelled Meer Taqi Meer), was an Urdu poet of the 18th century Mughal era in the Subcontinent and one of the pioneers who gave shape to the Urdu language ...
Momin Khan Momin
Momin Khan Momin (; 1800–14 May 1852) was a late Mughal era poet known for his Urdu ghazals. A lesser-known contemporary of Ghalib and Zauq, he used "Momin" as his pen name. His grave is located in the Mehdiyan cemetery in Maulana Azad Me ...
Mohiuddin Qadri Zore
Syed Mohiuddin Qadri Zore (December 1905 – September 1962) was an Indian writer, scholar, poet, literary critic, historian, and social reformer. He is best known for his pursuit of the rejuvenation of Urdu language and literature, writin ...
Naseem Hijazi
Sharif Hussain (Urdu: ), who used the pseudonym Nasīm Hijāzī (Urdu: , commonly transliterated as Naseem Hijazi or Nasim Hijazi) (19 May 1914 – 2 March 1996), was an Urdu novelist.
Life and career
Hussain was born in an Arain family in th ...
Gopi Chand Narang
Gopi Chand Narang (11 February 1931 – 15 June 2022) was an Indian theorist, literary critic, and scholar who wrote in Urdu and English. His Urdu literary criticism incorporated a range of modern theoretical frameworks including stylistics, st ...
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Mir Gul Khan Nasir
Gul Khan Naseer ( ur, ), also known as Malek o-Sho'arā Balochistan ( ur, ; 14 May 1914 – 6 December 1983) was a politician, poet, historian, and journalist from Balochistan, Pakistan. Born on 14 May 1914 in Noshki, Gul Khan Naseer was at the ...
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Zehra Nigah
Zehra Nigah ( ur, ) is an Urdu poet and scriptwriter from Pakistan. She was one of two female poets to gain prominence in the 1950s when the scene was dominated by men. She has written several television drama serials. She has also received vario ...
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Shibli Nomani
Shibli Nomani ( ur, – ; 3 June 1857 – 18 November 1914) was an Islamic scholar from the Indian subcontinent during the British Raj. He was born at Bindwal in Azamgarh district of present-day Uttar Pradesh.Asif Noorani
Asif Noorani ( ur, آصف نورانی; born 1942) is a Pakistani newspaper and television journalist and writer.
Personal life
Asif Noorani was born in Mumbai, India in 1942. He belongs to a secular Urdu-speaking family. His family migrated to ...
Ghulam-us-Saqlain Naqvi
Ghulam-Us-Saqlain Naqvi (Punjabi, ur, غلام الثقلین نقوی), (March 12, 1922 - April 6, 2002) was a Pakistani Urdu novelist and travel writer. was a Pakistani Urdu writer, best known for his short stories. His work often portrayed ...
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Moeen Nizami
Moeen or Moein or Moien is a given name and surname. It is a Quranic name which means: helper, supporter, or provider of refuge.
Notable persons with the name include:
Persons with the given name
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Mohiuddin Nawab
Mohiuddin Nawab ( ur, ) (September 4, 1930 - February 6, 2016) was a Pakistani novelist, screenwriter, and poet. He is famous for his popular novel series, " Devta" that was episodically and continuously published in Suspense Digest from February ...
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Nimra Ahmed Khan
(also known as Nimra Ahmed or Nemrah Niazi) is a Pakistani novelist۔. She is the CEO of "Zanjabeel". Her first novel was published in Khwateen Digest.
Books
She has written several books in Urdu:
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Munshi Premchand
Dhanpat Rai Srivastava (31 July 1880 – 8 October 1936), better known by his pen name Premchand (), was an Indian writer famous for his modern Hindustani literature. Premchand was a pioneer of Hindi and Urdu social fiction. He was one of ...
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Ghulam Muhammad Qasir
Ghulam Muhammad Qasir ( ur, غلام محمد قاصر 4 September 1944 – 20 February 1999) was a Pakistani Urdu poet. He was considered to be one of the finest modern poets of Urdu Ghazal. Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi was the one who 1st introduced hi ...
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Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi
Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi ( ur, ) born Ahmad Shah Awan ( ur, ) (20 November 1916 - 10 July 2006) was an Urdu language Pakistani poet, journalist, literary critic, dramatist and short story author. He wrote 50 books on topics such as poetry, fiction ...
Bano Qudsia
Bano Qudsia ( ur, ; 28 November 19284 February 2017), also known as Bano Aapa, was a Pakistani novelist, playwright and spiritualist. She wrote literature in Urdu, producing novels, dramas plays and short stories. Qudsia is best recognized ...
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Haider Qureshi
Haider Qureshi ( ur, ),Qureshi Ghulam Haider Arshad ( ur, ) born on 1 September 1953 in Rabwah, Punjab, He is a Pakistani Urdu poet, short story writer, essayist, critic, editor and journalist. He writes in Urdu.
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Qudratullah Shahab
Qudrat Ullah Shahab (or Qudratullah Shahab, ur, ; 26 February 191724 July 1986) was an eminent Urdu writer and civil servant from Pakistan.
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Ahfaz ur Rahman
Ahfaz-ur-Rahman ( ur, ) (born 4 April 1942 – 12 April 2020), was a Pakistani journalist, writer and poet. He struggled for the freedom of the press and for the rights of journalists under military dictatorships and even civilian governments. ...
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Razia Butt
Razia Butt ( ur, ) was an Urdu novelist and playwright from Pakistan. One of the famous popular fiction writer of the 1960s and 1970s, she is often compared with English writer Barbara Cartland due to her popularity among the household readers.
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Bushra Rahman
Bushra Rahman ( ur, ) (29 August 1944 – 7 February 2022) was a Pakistani politician who served as member of the National Assembly of Pakistan from 2002 to 2013. She remained a member of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab from 1985 to 1990 ...
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Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman
Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman is an Indian scholar of Unani medicine. He founded Ibn Sina Academy of Medieval Medicine and Sciences in 2000. He had earlier served as Professor and chairman, Department of Ilmul Advia at the Ajmal Khan Tibbiya Coll ...
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Shakeelur Rahman
Shakeelur Rehman (18 February 1931 – 9 May 2016) was an Indian politician and Urdu-language writer. He served as Minister of Health and Family Welfare in Chandra Shekhar government. His father Khan Bahadur Muhammad Jan was a Government lawyer ...
Samina Raja
Samina Raja ( ur, 11 September 1961 – 30 October 2012) was a Pakistani Urdu poet, writer, editor, translator, educationist and broadcaster. She lived in Islamabad, Pakistan, and worked in the National Language Authority as a subject ...
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Malik Ram
Malik Ram was the pen name of Malik Ram Baveja (1906–1993), a renowned Urdu, Persian and Arabic scholar from India. He received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1983 for his monumental work ''Tazkirah-e-Muasireen''.
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Noon Meem Rashid
Nazar Muhammad Rashed ( ur, ), (1 August 1910 – 9 October 1975) commonly known as Noon Meem Rashed ( ur, ) or N.M. Rashed, was a Pakistani poet of modern Urdu poetry.Fahmida Riaz
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Abbas Rizvi
Syed Haider Abbas Rizvi ( ur, سيد حیدر عباس رضوی ), (born, January 1, 1968, in Karachi) is the former Parliamentary leader, deputy parliamentary leader of Muttahida Qaumi Movement – Pakistan, MQM who had been the List of members ...
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Khurshid Rizvi
Khurshid Rizvi (ڈاکٹرخورشید رضوی) is a Pakistani scholar of languages and an Urdu poet.
Early life
Rizvi was born on 8 December 1940 in Amroha, Muradabad (India) in a Sunni Sadaat family. As a young child, he immigrated with his f ...
Rauf Parekh
Rauf Parekh is an Urdu lexicographer, linguist, humorist and a Pakistani newspaper columnist.
Early life and career
Born in Karachi on August 26, 1958, Parekh was educated in Karachi. Having obtained MA and PhD degrees in Urdu from the Univer ...
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Qamar Siddiqui
Qamar Siddiqui was one of
Pakistan's most prominent twentieth century poets. Born in a highly educated and prominent family, he was a fourth child of Sir Abdul Qadir and Ahmedi Baigum.
Qamar Siddiqui was born as Sheikh Abdul Nazir Siddiqui.
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Saeed Ahmad Akbarabadi
Saeed Ahmad Akbarabadi (1908 – 24 May 1985) was an Indian Islamic scholar and an Urdu-language author who co-founded the Nadwatul Musannifeen. He served as the Dean of the Faculty of Theology in Aligarh Muslim University.
Akbarabadi was an ...
Shaukat Thanvi
Shaukat Thanvi (2 February 1904 – 4 May 1963) was a Pakistani writer and humorist.Sulaiman Nadvi
Syed Sulaiman Nadvi (—; 22 November 1884 – 22 November 1953) was a Pakistani historian, writer and scholar of Islam. He co-authored ''Sirat-un-Nabi'' and wrote ''Khutbat-e-Madras''.Agha Sadiq
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Ghazi Salahuddin
Ghazi Salahuddin (born 1939) (Urdu: غازى صلاح الدين), is a Pakistani journalist, writer, literary figure, and the scholar of political science.
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Qasim Mahmood
Syed Qasim Mahmood (Urdu: 17 November 1928 – 31 March 2010) was a Pakistani intellectual and Urdu short story writer, novelist, editor, publisher, translator, and encyclopedist.
He compiled fifteen encyclopedias and one dictionary and left se ...
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Mahmood Shaam
Mahmood Shaam ( ur, ) born Tariq Mahmood ( ur, ) on 5 February 1940, is a Pakistani Urdu language journalist, poet, writer and news analyst.
After serving Pakistan's largest newspaper Jang Group for more than 16 years continuously as Grou ...
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Qudratullah Shahab
Qudrat Ullah Shahab (or Qudratullah Shahab, ur, ; 26 February 191724 July 1986) was an eminent Urdu writer and civil servant from Pakistan.
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Saif Ahmad
Saifuddin "Saif" Ahmad is a Bangladeshi-American restaurateur and World Series of Poker champion. Ahmad is the owner of several Tony Roma's restaurants in Los Angeles, California, and won the 2007 World Series of Poker bracelet in the $2,000 ...
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Abdul Halim Sharar
Abdul Halim Sharar ( ur, ; 4 September 1860 – 1 December 1926) was an Indian author, playwright, essayist and historian from Lucknow. He left behind, in all, hundred and two books. He often wrote about the Islamic past and extolled virtues l ...
Abul Lais Siddiqui
Abul Lais Siddiqui (Urdu: ابو اللیث صدیقی) (15 June 1916 – 7 September 1994) was a Pakistani author, researcher, critic, linguist and scholar of Urdu literature and linguistics.
Career
He remained associated with the Univers ...
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Rasheed Ahmad Siddiqi
Rasheed Ahmad Siddiqui (1892–1977) was a noted Urdu writer and a professor at Aligarh Muslim University in India.
Literary life and style
Rasheed Ahmad Siddiqui was born in 1892 in Mariyahu, Jaunpur in Uttar Pradesh. He was one of the most d ...
Parveen Shakir
Parveen Shakir ( ur, ; 24 November 1952 – 26 December 1994) was a Pakistani poet, teacher and a civil servant of the government of Pakistan. She is best known for her poems, which brought a distinctive feminine voice to Urdu ...
Umrao Tariq
Umrao Tariq (born ''Syed Tariq Ali'': 1932 in Fatehpur, Haswa, British India – 8 December 2011) was an acclaimed Urdu writer based in Karachi, Pakistan. He normally wrote short stories (Afsanay), but wrote a novel and other works of pr ...
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Umera Ahmad
Umera Ahmed ( Punjabi, ur, ) is a Pakistani writer, author and screenwriter. She is best known for her novels and plays ''Shehr-e-Zaat'', ''Pir-e-Kamil'', ''Zindagi Gulzar Hai'', '' Alif'', '' Durr-e-Shehwar'', ''Daam'', '' Man-o-Salwa'', ''Q ...
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Wahab Ashrafi
Dr. Syed Abdul Wahab Ashrafi (Urdu/Persian/Arabic: ; hi, वहाब अशरफी )
(2 June 1936 – 15 July 2012) was an Indian literary critic and an eminent personality in the world of Urdu literature. He belonged to the family of the ...
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Muzaffar Warsi
Muzaffar Warsi (23 December 1933 – 28 January 2011; ur, مظفر وارثی) was a Pakistani poet, essayist, lyricist, and a scholar of Urdu. He began writing more than five decades ago. He wrote a rich collection of na`ats, as well as seve ...
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Raees Warsi Raees may refer to:
* Raees (1976 film), an Indian Hindi-language drama film
* ''Raees'' (2017 film), an Indian Hindi-language action film
* ''Raees'' (soundtrack), a soundtrack album from the film
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Raza Naqvi Wahi
Raza Naqvi Wahi (born Syed Mohammad Raza Naqvi; 19 January 1914 – 5 January 2002) was an Indian Urdu-language poet during his time. He used the ''takhallus'' (pen name) of Wahi.
Creative Journey And Evolution
* The creation of first Shair ...
Zafar Ali Khan
Zafar Ali Khan (1874– 27 November 1956) ( pnb, – ), also known as Maulana Zafar Ali Khan, was a Pakistani writer, poet, translator and a journalist who played an important role in the Pakistan Movement against the British Raj. He is genera ...
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Razia Sajjad Zaheer
Razia Sajjad Zaheer (15 October 1918, Ajmer – 18 December 1979, Delhi) was an Indian writer in the Urdu language, a translator, and a prominent member of the Progressive Writers Association. She won the Uttar Pradesh Sahitya Akademi Award as ...
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Sajjad Zaheer
Syed Sajjad Zaheer ( ur, ) (5 November 1899 – 13 September 1973) was an Indian Urdu writer, Marxist ideologue and radical revolutionary who worked in both India and Pakistan. In the pre-independence era, he was a member of the Communist Par ...
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Anwer Zahidi
Anwer Zahidi ( ur, )(born July 9, 1946) is a Pakistani Urdu author of more than twelve books of poetry, short stories, travelogue and translations. After completing his graduation in science from Punjab University, Anwer Zahidi received a degree ...
Ibrahim Zauq
Sheikh Muhammad Ibrahim Zauq (1790–1854) was an Urdu poet and scholar of literature, poetry and religion. He wrote poetry under the pen name "Zauq", and was appointed poet laureate of the Mughal Court in Delhi just at the age of 19. Later h ...
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Kanwal Ziai
Kanwal Ziai (born Hardayal Singh Datta) (15 March 1927 – 27 October 2011) was an Urdu and Hindi language poet and author from India.
Early life
Ziai was born on 15 March 1927 in Kanjrur Dattan, Sialkot, (now Pakistan). He received award ''Doo ...
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Urdu-language literature
Urdu literature ( ur, , ) is literature in the Urdu language. While it tends to be dominated by poetry, especially the verse forms of the ''ghazal '' غزل and ''nazm '' نظم, it has expanded into other styles of writing, including that of t ...
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List of Urdu-language poets
The following is a List of Urdu-language poets.
13th century
15th century
16th century
17th century
18th century
* Mirza Muhammad Rafi, ''Sauda'' (1713–1780)
* Siraj Aurangabadi, ''Siraj'' (1715–1763)
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List of Pakistani writers
This is a List of Pakistani writers, writers of fiction and nonfiction who are native to, or born in Pakistan, writing in any language.
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List of Pakistani poets
This is a list of noted Pakistani poets, poets born or raised in Pakistan, whether living there or overseas, and writing in one of the languages of Pakistan.
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List of Hindi-language authors
This is a list of authors of Hindi literature, i.e. people who write in Hindi language, its dialects and Hindustani language.
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* Amarkant (1925–2014), novelist
* Amar Goswami (1945–2012), Hindi author and journalist
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