Harris Khalique

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Citizenship Pakistan Role Poet		Name Harris Khalique Known for Poetry

Born October 20, 1966 ( 1966-10-20 ) Karachi Education NED University of Engineering and Technology, London School of Economics and Political Science
Parents Khalique Ibrahim Khalique

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Harris Khalique (Urdu: حارث خلیق) (born 20 October 1966) is a poet in Urdu and English, essayist, columnist, and civil society leader, based in Pakistan. He has eight collections of verse and a book of creative non-fiction behind him. He also won the ‘UBL Literary Excellence Award 2013’ in the category of Urdu poetry for his collection of verse Melay Mein (Urdu).

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Early life

Harris Khalique was born in Karachi, Pakistan, on 20 October 1966 to a writer-filmmaker father, Khalique Ibrahim Khalique, and a writer-teacher mother, Hamra Khalique.

Harris attended Public School Karachi Cantt., D.J. Sindh Government Science College. Later, pursued mechanical engineering from N.E.D. University of Engineering and Technology in Karachi. He did MA from London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.

He lived, worked and studied in Europe for some time before settling down in Islamabad in 2001.

Career

Harris Khalique has actively participated in social, labour, women and minority rights movements and community development in voluntary and professional capacities.

He was the Chief Executive of Strengthening Participatory Organization (SPO), Pakistan's largest rights-based organization.

Harris is currently the Team leader of ‘AAWAZ – Voice and Accountability Programme’, a project of Development Alternatives Incorporated (DAI), a private development company, focusing on the rights of women and excluded groups in Pakistan.

Literary career

Harris Khalique is a critically acclaimed poet in Urdu and English, whose work has been translated into Arabic, English, French, German, Romanian and Spanish. He has also composed a few poems in Punjabi.

In 2004, he published collection of English poetry, Between You and Your Love, which was revised in 2014. In 2013, he won the ‘UBL Literary Excellence Award 2013’ in the category of Urdu poetry for his collection of verse Melay Mein (Urdu).

In 2015, he participated in the International Writing Program's Fall Residency at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, IA.

Harris is a prolific essayist and columnist, too, contributing regularly to newspapers and magazines in Pakistan and abroad for more than twenty- five years, including a weekly column in The News International for eight years.

Poetry collections

Melay Mein (Urdu, 2012). ISBN 978-969-419-044-0

Ishq Ki Taqveem Mein (Urdu, 2006). ISBN 969-419-023-1

Between you and your love (English, 2004, Revised and Expanded, 2012)

Purani Numaish (Urdu, 2001)

Saray Kaam Zaroori Thay (Urdu, 1997). ISBN 969-441-019-3

Divan (English, 1998)

Saray Kaam Zaroori Thay (Urdu, 1997)

If wishes were horses (English, 1996)

Aaj Jab Hui Baarish (Urdu, 1991)

Non-fiction

Unfinished Histories (co-written, English, 2002). ISBN 969-516-065-4

Monographs

The Latent Transformation: Challenges, Resilience and Successes of Pakistani Women (2011)

Pakistan Mein Syasi Tabdeeli Ki Simt (Co-written, Urdu, 2007)

Pakistan: The Question of Identity (2003)

Anthologies where some work appeared

Dragonfly in the Sun – 50 years of Pakistani writing in English. Oxford University Press, 1997. ISBN 978-0195778489

The Poetry of Men’s Lives, The University of Georgia Press. 2004. ISBN 978-0820326498

Language for a New Century. W.W. Norton and Co., 2008. ISBN 978-0820326498

Pakistani Urdu Verse. Oxford University Press, 2010. ISBN 978-0195478914

Windows on the World – 50 writers, 50 views. Penguin US, 2014. ISBN 978-1594205545

References

Harris Khalique Wikipedia

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