Faiz Ahmad Faiz

Faiz Ahmad Faiz, born on 13 February 1911 and dead on 20 November 1984, was a Pakistani poet and author of Urdu and Punjabi literature, and one of the best known Urdu writers of his time. Born in the Punjab and educated in Lahore, he was also a teacher, army officer, journalist, trade unionist and broadcaster, and after Partition he edited the Pakistan Times and Imroze. He was imprisoned from 1951 for an alleged conspiracy and later lived in Moscow, London and Beirut. He became a notable member of the Progressive Writers' Movement and a poet whose Marxist convictions shaped his work. He received the Lenin Peace Prize in 1962 and, after his death, Pakistan's Nishan-e-Imtiaz in 1990.