Iftikhar Arif
| Iftikhar Arif | |
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| Born |
Iftikhar Hussain Arif 21 March 1943 Lucknow, United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, British India |
| Occupation | Urdu poet |
| Nationality | Pakistani |
| Notable works | Mehr-i-Doneem, Harf-i-Baryab, Jahan-e-Maloom, Kitab-i-Dil-o-Dunya |
| Notable awards |
Faiz International Award 1988 Waseeqa-e-eEtraaf 1994 Baba-e-Urdu Award 1995 Naqoosh Award 1994 Pride of Performance1989 Sitara-e-Imtiaz1999 Hilal-e-Imtiaz2005 [1][2] |
Iftikhar Hussain Arif (born 21 March 1943) (Urdu: افتخار حسین عارف), commonly known as Iftikhar Arif, is an Urdu poet, scholar and littérateur from Pakistan. His style is romantic Urdu poetry. He has headed the Pakistan Academy of Letters and the National Language Authority.[3] He has received the Hilal-e-Imtiaz, Sitara-e-Imtiaz and Presidential Pride of Performance awards, which are the highest literary awards given by the Government of Pakistan.[4]
Works and achievements
Shikam ki aag liye phir rahi hay shehar-ba-shehar
Sag-e-zamana hein hum kia hamri hijrar kia.[source needs translation]
Iftikhar Arif is an Urdu poet.[5] Three collections of his poetry, Mehr-i-Doneem, Harf-i-Baryab[6] and Jahan-e-Maloom have been published.
Oxford University Press has published an anthology of Arif’s translated poetry under the title, Written in the Season of Fear. The introduction was written by Harris Khalique, a poet who writes in English, Urdu and Punjabi.[7]
Awards
- Hilal-i-Imtiaz (2005)
- Sitara-e-Imtiaz (1999)
- Pride of Performance (literature 1990)
- Baba-e-Urdu Maulvi Abdul Haq Award, (poetry, 1995)
- Naqoosh Award (1994)
- Faiz International Award for Poetry from the Aalami Urdu Conference
Books and publications
- Mehr-i-Doneem (1983)
- Harf-i-Baryab (1994)
- Jahan-e-Maloom
- Shehr-e-Ilm ke derwazay per (2006)
- Written in the Season of Fear (English translation)
- The Twelfth Man (translation of Barhwan Khilari by Brenda Walker, 1989)
- Kitab-e-Dil-o-Dunya (2009)
- Modern Poetry of Pakistan [8] (2011, editor)
References
- ↑ Engro excellence awards
- ↑ Iftikhar Arif at Pakistan Academy of Letters
- ↑ "Cultural Pursuits: Urdu poet laments the decline of the language". Express Tribune.
- ↑ Page:358 Jawaz-E-Iftikhar by Sheema Majeed, ISBN 969-530-131-2
- ↑ The twelfth man: selected poems of Iftikhar Arif. Forest. 1989. p. 69. Retrieved 2010-01-03.
- ↑ Arif, Iftikhar (1994). HARF E BARYAB. Maktab-E-Danyal. p. 132. ISBN 969-419-016-9.
- ↑ Arif, Iftikhar (2003). Written in the season of fear. Oxford University Press, Karachi Pakistan. p. 75. ISBN 978-0-19-579798-5.
- ↑ Google books
External links
- Iftikhar Arif expressing his views on today's poetry. and then reciting some of his poetry. 29/04/2011
- author page at Lyrikline.org, with audio and text in Urdu, and translations into German.
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