Noshi Gilani
| Noshi Gilani نوشی گیلانی |
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Noshi Gilani
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14 March 1964 Bahawalpur, Punjab, Pakistan |
| Occupation | Urdu poet |
| Nationality | Pakistani |
| Ethnicity | Punjab, Pakistan |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Education | MA Urdu literature - Iqbaliat and Persian |
| Genre | Ghazal; Free verse Nazm |
| Notable works | Mohabbatein Jab Shumaar Karna |
| Notable awards | Khwaja Farid Award |
| Spouse | Saeed Khan |
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Noshi Gilani (Urdu: نوشی گیلانی ) (born 1964) in Bahawalpur Pakistan is an Urdu poet and a former academic from the Islamia University, Bahawalpur Pakistan. She has written several books of poetry and some of her work has been translated into English.
Gilani was born in Bahawalpur, Pakistan. She studied at Bahawalpur University. She settled in San Francisco, USA in 1995. She moved to Australia after her marriage to Saeed Khan an Australian-based Urdu poet in 2008. The couple lives in Sydney,Australia.
The candour and frankness of her poems is unusual for a woman writing in Urdu and she has gained a committed international audience, performing at large poetry gatherings in Pakistan, Australia, Canada and the United States. Unknown outside the Pakistani community, the translations mark her introduction to an English-speaking audience. She is a member of younger generation of female poets. Her experience of living in USA shows a notable impact on her significant number of poems. Living through Diaspora has increased the complexity of her poems and reinforced her sense of female identity and introduced a new revolution against restraint creative writers in Pakistani society.
In 2008, her some poetry work was translated into English and her poems were read in the UK, with the Poetry Translation Centre's World Poets' Tour. Gilani is also credited with co-translating the great Australian poet Les Murray into Urdu language. These works were published in Tasteer Literary magazine in Islamabad in its December 2011 edition. She hosted a tribute to folk singer Pathanay Khan, sponsored by the Pakistan National Council of the Arts (PNCA).
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