Faiz Ahmed Faiz

Faiz Ahmed Faiz was born on 13 February 1911 in the Punjab, in Kala Qader, and studied in Lahore. A teacher, then an officer in the Indian Army during the war, he edited the Pakistan Times after the partition. Arrested in March 1951 for conspiracy against the government, he spent four years in prison. The first Asian poet to win the Lenin Peace Prize, in 1962, he went into exile in Beirut under the regime of General Zia ul-Haq and died in Lahore in November 1984.

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• Poetryدستِ صباFaiz Ahmed Faiz · 1952not translated into EnglishLiterature