Faiz Ahmad Faiz
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Faiz (left) awarding a prize for an Indo-Pak Youth Essay Writing Competition.
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| Native name | فیض احمد فیض |
| Born | Faiz Ahmad Faiz 13 February 1911 Kala Qader(Faiz Nagar), Narowal District, Punjab, British India |
| Died | 20 November 1984 (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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