Nationality Indian Role Poet | Name Shamsur Faruqi Occupation poet, critic | |
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Full Name Shamsur Rahman Faruqi Born January 15, 1935 (age 89) ( 1935-01-15 ) India Books The Mirror of Beauty | ||
Education University Of Allahabad | ||
Shamsur rahman faruqi in conversation with baran farooqi at jashn e rekhta 2015
Shamsur Rahman Faruqi (Urdu: شمس الرحمٰن فاروقی) (born 15 January 1935) is an Indian poet and one of the leading Urdu critics and theorists. He has formulated fresh models of literary appreciation. He absorbed western principles of literary criticism and subsequently applied them to Urdu literature, but only after adapting them to address literary aesthetics native to Arabic, Persian, and Urdu
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- Shamsur rahman faruqi in conversation with baran farooqi at jashn e rekhta 2015
- The life of urdu poet critc shamsur rahman faruqi
- Early life
- Career
- Dastangoi
- Awards
- References
The life of urdu poet critc shamsur rahman faruqi
Early life
He was born on 15 January 1935 in India. He received his Master of Arts (MA) degree in English from Allahabad University in 1955.
Career
He began writing in 1960. Initially he worked for the Indian postal service (1960-1968), and then as a chief postmaster-general and member of the Postal Services Board, New Delhi until 1994. He was also editor of his literary magazine Shabkhoon and part-time professor at the South Asia Regional Studies Center at the University of Pennsylvania.
An expert in classical prosody and ‘ilm-e bayan (the science of poetic discourse), he has contributed to modern literary discourse with a profundity rarely seen in contemporary Urdu critics. His most recent books, The Mirror of Beauty (translated into English from the Urdu Kai Chaand The Sar-e-Aasmaan in 2006), and The Sun That Rose From The Earth (Penguin India, 2014), have been highly critically acclaimed. He is the recipient of numerous honors and awards. Most recently he was awarded the prestigious Saraswati Samman for his work She`r-e Shor-Angez, a four-volume study of the eighteenth-century poet Mir Taqi Mir.
Anjum Hasan in The Caravan on 'The Mirror of Beauty': http://www.caravanmagazine.in/books/paradise-rectitude Rajni George in Open Magazine, profile of Shamsur Rahman Faruqi: http://www.openthemagazine.com/article/books/the-last-ustad Mayank Austen Soofi's interview with Shamsur Rahman Faruqi in Mint: http://www.livemint.com/Leisure/n6UCQZrqyozgLHV0W1IFAL/Shamsur-Rahman-Faruqi-Darcy-was-a-damn-sexist.html
Dastangoi
Dastangoi is a 16th-century Urdu oral storytelling art form. The art form was revived in 2005 and has been performed in India, Pakistan, and the United States. The art form reached its zenith in the Indian sub-continent in the 19th century and is said to have died with the demise of Mir Baqar Ali in 1928. Shamsur Rahman Faruqi and his nephew, writer and director Mahmood Farooqui have played significant roles in its revival in the 21st century.
Awards
He was awarded the Saraswati Samman, a prestigious literary award in India in 1996. The Government of India awarded him the civilian honour of Padma Shri in 2009.