Faiz Ahmed Faiz

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Born	13 February 1911
Location	Lahore, Pakistan
Gender	Male
Personal information	Faiz was born on February 13, 1911, at Kala Qadir. After primary education in the village he joined the Mission High School, Sialkot, from where he passed his Matriculation. He graduated from Murray College, Sialkot, did his Masters in English and Arabic from Government College, Lahore, and started his career as a teacher at the M.A.O. College, Amritsar. During World War II, Faiz joined the Public Relations department of the Indian Army which he left at the end of the war. Soon after Independence Faiz became the Editor of the Pakistan Times on his debut in journalism. On March 9,1951, he was arrested in connection with the Rawalpindi Conspiracy Case. He remained under detention in Hyderabad and elsewhere for about four years. After his release in 1955 he resumed his journalistic career as Chief Editor of the Pakistan Times— a position he retained till the imposition of martial law in 1958. Faiz was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize in 1962. He was considered for the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982-83. Faiz is also a recipient of the Lotus Award for Literature. He was a founder-member of the Progressive Writers' Association in 1936. He was also a founder member of the Afro-Asian Writers Association and was on its Executive Board till his death. At present he was the Chief Editor of the Afro-Asian journal ‘Lotus,’ whose offices had recently been shifted from Beirut to Tunis. Faiz was also an active trade unionist. In his early years on the Central Executive of the All India Federation of Trade Unions, he particularly worked among the India Rail employees. After partition he became the Vice President of the Pakistan Trade Unions Federation, in which capacity he represented the country at international conferences. Son of the late Sultan Mohammad Khan, bar-at-law, Faiz performed his last public function at the Nairang Galleries, Gulberg, where he inaugurated an exhibition by Kohari on November 14. He was to leave for Karachi on Wednesday. One of his daughters, Saleema Hashmi, is a teacher at the National College of Arts, while the other daughter, Muneeza Hashmi is a television producer. Both his sons-in-law, Shoaib and Humair Hashmi, are in the teaching profession. Faiz leaves behind nine collections of verse, two books of prose and one collection of letters. His collections of verse are Naqsh-i-Faryadi, Dast-i-Teh-i-Sang, Dast-i-Saba, Zindan Nama, Sar-i-Wadi-i-Sina, Sham-i-Shaharyaran; his two prose books are Meezan and Lauho-Qalam, while Saleebein Meray Dareechay Mein is a collection of his letters to his wife, Alys. Saray Sukhan Hamaray, a volume of his collected works was published in England last year. It was published in Pakistan the same year under the title Nuskha Ha-i-Wafa. His work has been translated into a number of languages including English, Russian and French. His earliest European translator was Victor Kiernan. Courtesy: Dawn (https://www.dawn.com/)

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Website	http://www.faiz.com/