Faiz Ahmad Faiz

Faiz Ahmad Faiz MBE, NI, Lenin Peace Prize was an influential leftwing intellectual, revolutionary poet, and one of the most highly regarded poets of the Urdu language, having been nominated four times for the Nobel Prize for literature. Faiz also wrote poetry in the Punjabi language. A notable member of the Progressive Writers Movement , Faiz was an avowed Marxist, for which he received the Lenin Peace Prize by the Soviet Union in 1962.

Faiz Ahmad Faiz was born in Kashmiri family onFebruary 1911, in Kala Qader, District Narowal, Punjab, Pakistan . Faiz hailed from an academic family that was well known in literary circles. His home was often the scene of a gathering of local poets and writers who met to promote the literacy movement in his native province. His father Sultan Muhammad Khan was a barrister who worked for the British Government, and an autodidact who wrote and published the biography of Amir Abdur Rahman, an Emir of Imperial Afghanistan.

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