Famous Poet

 

Famous Poet






Sir Muhammad Iqbal, KCSI was a British Indian Muslim writer, philosopher, and politician, whose poetry in the Urdu language is among the greatest of the twentieth century, and whose vision of a cultural and political ideal for the Muslims of British-ruled India was to animate the impulse for Pakistan. 

Born: November 9, 1877, Sialkot
Died: April 21, 1938, Lahore
Education: Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (1907–1908), MORE
Poems: Shikwa and Jawab-e-Shikwa, Message from the East, MORE



Ahmed Faraz: احمد فراز
Syed Ahmad Shah, better known by his pen name Ahmed Faraz, was a Pakistani Urdu poet, scriptwriter, and chairman of the Pakistan Academy of Letters. He wrote his poetry under the pseudonym Faraz. During his lifetime, he criticized military rule and coup d'état in the country and was displaced by military dictators.

Born: January 12, 1931, Kohat
Died: August 25, 2008, Islamabad
Full name: Syed Ahmad Shah Ali
Parents: Syed Muhammad Shah Barq
Children: Shibli Faraz


Amjad Islam Amjad: امجد اسلام امجد
Amjad Islam Amjad, PP, Sitara-e-Imtiaz is an Urdu poet, drama writer, and lyricist from Pakistan. The author of more than 40 books in a career spanning 50 years, he has received many awards for his literary work and screenplay for TV, including Pride of Performance and Sitara-e-Imtiaz Awards. 

Born: August 4, 1944 (age 76 years), Lahore
Spouse: Firdous Amjad
Awards: Pride of Performance in 1987; Sitara-e-Imtiaz (Star of Excellence) Award (1998)
Books: Fishār
Children: Ali Zeeshan Amjad
Movies: Salakhain


Parveen Shakir PP was a Pakistani poet, teacher, and civil servant of the Government of Pakistan. She is best known for her poems, which brought a distinctive feminine voice to Urdu literature, and for her consistent use of the rare grammatical feminine gender for the word "lover". 

Born: November 24, 1952, Karachi
Died: December 26, 1994, Islamabad
Place of burial: Islamabad Graveyard H-8, Islamabad
Children: Syed Murad Ali
Parents: Afzal-un-Nissa, Syed Shakir Hussain Zaidi


Munir Niazi:منیر نیازی
Munir Ahmed Niazi was an Urdu and Punjabi language poet from Pakistan. He also wrote for newspapers, magazines, and radio. In 1960, he established a publication institute, Al-Misal. He was later associated with Pakistan Television, Lahore, and lived in Lahore till his death.

Born: April 9, 1928, Hoshiarpur, India
Died: December 26, 2006, Lahore
Spouse: Begum Naheed Munir Niazi (m. 1958)
Notable awards: Sitara-e-Imtiaz (Star of Excellence) Award in 2005; Pride of
Performance Award in 1992


Syed Abdullah Shah Qadri or Syed Abdullah Shah Gilani, known as Bulleh Shah, was a Punjabi philosopher and Sufi poet during the 17th-century Punjab. His first spiritual teacher was Shah Inayat Qadiri, a Sufi murshid of Lahore. He was a mystic poet and is universally regarded as "The father of Punjabi enlightenment".

Born: 1680, Uch Sharif
Died: 1757, Kasur
Full name: Syed Abdullah Shah Qadri
Place of burial: Kasur
Parents: Shah Muhammad Darwish, Fatima Bibi

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