Faiz Ahmed Faiz

Faiz Ahmad Faiz was a Pakistani poet and writer based in Urdu and Punjabi. He was one of Pakistan's most famous Urdu writers. Faiz was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature and bagged the Lenin Peace Prize. He was born in Punjab, British India. Faiz studied at Government as well as Oriental College. He continued to serve the British Indian Army.

After Pakistan's independence, Faiz became the editor of the Pakistan Times and a key member of the Communist Party, and was arrested in 1951 on suspicion of a plot to overthrow the Riakut government and replace it with a left-wing government. Released four years later from the prison, Faiz became a prominent member of the Progressive Writer Movement and became an adviser to the Butt government before being expelled to Beirut.

Faiz Ahmed Faiz was born on February 13, 1911 in the Jat tribe in Kara Kadel (now Faiz Nagar) in the Sialkot district of Punjab, India. He is from Faiz, a well-known academia in the literary world. His home was often the site of a gathering of local poets and writers who gathered to promote the literacy movement in his home state. Following the Islamic South Asian tradition, his family studies Islamic studies at a local mosque to turn himself to the foundations of religious studies by the Arihadith scholar Maurana Hafism Hammad Ibrahimmir Siakoti.  In 1941, Faiz became fond of Alice Faiz, a British Communist Party member who was a British citizen and a student at Government College, where Faiz taught poetry. In 1935, Faiz joined the Faculty of Muhammadang Anglo Oriental College in Amritsar, where he taught English and English literature. In late 1937, Faiz accepted a professorship at Haley's Faculty of Commerce and then moved to Lahore to meet his family, where he first taught an introductory course in economics and commerce. In 1936 Faiz joined the literary movement (PWM) and was appointed as his first secretary by his Marxist colleague Sajad the Heel. The movement has received a great deal of support from civil society in eastern and western Pakistan. From 1938 to 1946 he was the editor-in-chief of the monthly Urdu magazine "Adabe Latif (lit. Belles Letters)". 

In 1941 Faiz’s first literary book, "Naqshe Faryadi" (literally engraved) was published and then he joined the Pakistan Arts Council (PAC.) In 1947.