Adrian A. Husain

Adrian A. Husain (born 1942, in Kanpur) is an Indian-born Pakistani poet of the English language. He attended schools in England, Italy and Switzerland, and went to college in Oxford.[1] He received a Ph.D. in English literature with a thesis on Shakespeare, Machiavelli, and Castiglione.

His poetry has been published in the United States and the United Kingdom in addition to Pakistan. In 1968 he won the Guinness Poetry Prize. He often writes articles in the Dawn and other newspapers. His anthology Desert Album (ISBN 0-19-577809-X) was published by Oxford University Press.

Husain has been called the finest Pakistani poet writing in English.[2] He has said that he aspires to write verse that transcends time and space, rather than specifically Pakistani ethnic poetry.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Mitali Pati Wong, The English Language Poetry of South Asians: A Critical Study, p 50, McFarland & Co., Jefferson, ISBN 9780786436224
  2. ↑ POSTCARD USA: Gone but not forgotten, Daily Times (Pakistan), 2008-0-03
  3. ↑ The noise of silence, Dawn, 2004-06-13


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