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Nationality
  
Pakistani

Name
  
Nasir Nayyar

Education
  
Ph.D Urdu

Citizenship
  
Pakistan

Ethnicity
  
Punjabi


Nasir Abbas Nayyar

Born
  
Nasir Abbas ناصر عباس 25 April 1965 (age 59) Jhang, Pakistan (
1965-04-25
)

Occupation
  
Urdu writer, Essayist, Critic

Alma mater
  
Government College (University) Faisalabad, Pakistan

Jb nasir abbas nayyar world urdu conference


Nasir Abbas Nayyar (Urdu: ناصر عباس نیر ‎) is a Pakistani Urdu language writer, critic and essayist. He has written books on poetry, literary theory and post colonial study of Urdu literature. He has produced some important books on structuralism and postmodernism and their influence on Urdu literature.A book on life and poetics of Majid Amjid is another his significant contribution.His most famous work is on Postcolonial Study of Urdu Literature published by Oxford University Press, Karachi, Pakistan titled Mabad Nau Abadiat(Urdu Kay Tanazur MeiN ) and Urdu Adab ki Tashkeel e Jadid. His books on post colonialism proved ground breaking works in Urdu.

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Nasir Abbas Nayyar Interview at Rekhta Studio


Background

Nasir Abbas Nayyar was born on 25 April 1965 in a village of Jhang.he did his matriculation from Govt. High School Shorkot in 1981. He did his Master in Urdu from Government College University (Faisalabad) in 1990. He got his Ph D degree from Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan. He was awarded post doctoral fellowship by DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst) to pursue a research on Urdu courses of colonial period at Heidelberg University in 2011.

References

Nasir Abbas Nayyar Wikipedia