Synopsis
Kishwar Naheed is a leading poet in Pakistan who writes in the more traditional form of the ghazal. Some of her best works however, as reflected in this selection, have been prose poems that combine the formal with a more progressive perspective.
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Kishwar Naheed grew up in Lahore and has been contributing as a creative writer to several publications for many decades. She has also served various women's organizations. Between 1961 and 1998 she wrote eight collections of poetry. Two of her books were published in India, and selected poems have been published in Europe, USA, and Africa. She has also edited and published research work on the plight of women. As a translator she has rendered various works into Urdu including Folk Tales of Asia, a UNESCO assignment published in 1976. She was the recipient of the Mandela Award in 1997, and was awarded the Sitara-e-Imtiaz by the Government of Pakistan in 2000.
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Kishwar Naheed is a leading poet in Pakistan who writes in the more traditional form of the ghazal. Some of her best works however, as reflected in this selection, have been prose poems that combine the formal with a more progressive perspective.
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Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2001
ISBN 10: 0195793307
ISBN 13: 9780195793307
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