Faiz Ahmed Faiz

Faiz Ahmed Faiz (فيض ١حمد فيض)(January 7, 1910 - 1984), is considered by many to be a poet in the great tradition of Urdu poets like Ghalib and Iqbal. He was born in Sialkot, in the Punjab in pre-independence India (in what is now Pakistan). He remained on the Pakistani side of the partition of 1947 and subsequently died in Lahore. Faiz was a member of the Anjuman Tarraqi Pasand Mussanafin-e-Hind (Progressive Writers' Movement) and an avowed Marxist. In 1962 he was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize by the Soviet Union.

See also

• Alys Faiz
• Urdu
• Urdu poetry
• List of Urdu Poets
• Pak Tea House
• Rawalpindi Conspiracy Case
• Major General Akbar Khan The main conspirator in the "Rawalpindi Conspiracy Case"