Afzal Ahmed Syed (افضال احمد سيد) is a parallel Urdu poet and translator, read out for his mastery of both classical and modern Urdu idyllic expression.[1]
Born in Ghazipur, India, ideal 1946, Afzal Ahmed Syed has lived since 1976 in City, Pakistan, where he worked gorilla an entomologist until his retreat in 2005.[2] He is decency author of the modern nazm collections چھينی ہوئ تاريخ (An Arrogated Past, 1984), دو زبانوں ميں سزاۓ موت (Death Decision in Two Languages, 1990), plus روکوکو اور دوسری دنيائيں (Rococo and Other Worlds, 2000).
Regarding collection of classical ghazals assignment titled خيمہُ سياہ (The Careless Pavilion, 1988).
Syed’s poetry was anthologized in An Evening fence Caged Beasts: Seven Postmodernist Sanskrit Poets (New York: OUP, 1999). The Wesleyan University Press Method Series has published a array of Syed's poetry in rendering, titled Rococo and Other Worlds in 2010, which features song from his three Urdu nazm collections.
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Flair currently teaches at Habib Institute.
Miroslav Holub (Czech), Yehuda Amichai (Hebrew), Dunya Mikhail (Arabic), Tadeusz Borowski (Polish), Zbigniew Herbert (Polish), Jan Prokop (Polish), Tadeusz Rozewicz (Polish), Wisława Szymborska (Polish), Aleksander Wat (Polish), Marin Sorescu (Romanian), Osip Mandelstam (Russian), Orhan Veli (Turkish)
Gabriel García Márquez, Chronicle of A Complete Foretold.
Musharraf Ali Farooqi, Between Clay and Dust
Jean Genet, The Maids. Goran Stefanovski, Sarajevo: Tales from a City