Poetry
چونغر
Not translated into English
Sulaiman Layeq · 1962
Synopsis
Chunghar, a collection of poems in Pashto by Sulaiman Layeq, appeared in 1962, the year 1341 of the solar calendar, and had a second edition twenty years later. A university study regards it as its author's major book. A Peshawar journal devoted to Pashto letters sees in nostalgia, that regret and longing for the past, the subject of most of its poems.
Context
The Pashto article written for his eightieth birthday dates Chunghar to the solar year 1341, before Kegdey in 1354, Bādbān, his book in Dari, in 1358, Qessay aw afsanay in 1360, De Abasin spede in 1362, then Sāhil. A study holds Chunghar to be the author's principal book, written in Pashto.
Who it is for
Poems in Pashto, never translated. The English-speaking reader can approach the author through The dawn over Abasin, published in Kabul in 1986.
Prizes and reception
According to a university study in English, this book earned him the literature prize awarded in Afghanistan.