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Faiz Ahmad Faiz

Faiz Ahmad Faiz
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Faiz (left) awarding a prize for an Indo-Pak Youth Essay Writing Competition.
Native name فیض احمد فیض
Born Faiz Ahmad Faiz
(1911-02-13)13 February 1911
Kala Qader(Faiz Nagar), Narowal District, Punjab, British India
Died 20 November 1984(1984-11-20) (aged 73)
Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
Occupation poet and journalist
Language Punjabi
Russian
English
Urdu
Arabic
Persian
Nationality Pakistani
Ethnicity Punjabi (Jat)
Education Arabic literature
B.A., MA
English Literature
Master of Arts
Alma mater Murray College at Sialkot
Government College University
Punjab University
Genre Ghazal, Nazm
Literary movement Progressive Writers' Movement
Communist Party of Pakistan
Notable works Naqsh-e-Faryadi
Dast-e-Sabah
Zindan-nama
Notable awards MBE (1946)
Nigar Awards (1953)
Lenin Peace Prize (1962)
HRC Peace Prize
Nishan-e-Imtiaz (1990)
Avicenna Prize (2006)
Spouse Alys Faiz
Children Salima (b. 1942)
Muneeza (b. 1945)

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Faiz Ahmad Faiz (Punjabi, Urdu: فیض احمد فیض ‎, born 13 February 1911 – 20 November 1984) MBE, NI, Lenin Peace Prize was a Pakistani intellectual, revolutionary poet, and one of the most celebrated writers 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 (PWM), Faiz was an avowed Marxist, for which he received the Lenin Peace Prize by the Soviet Union in 1962.

Faiz was identified as an opponent of the Prime minister Liaquat Ali Khan's government in the Rawalpindi conspiracy case, along with the left-wing military sponsor Major-General Akbar Khan. The Military police arrested Faiz as a result, held to trial by its JAG branch, and given a long sentence. These were commuted after the assassination of Liaquat Ali Khan in 1951.


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