Newsletter Monthly March

Since the latter half of the 20th century, feminist voices have stormed the literary and cultural milieu. Female writers and poets have been intensely aware of the female predicament, and it has significantly contributed to their literary sensibilities. On this momentous day, when the achievements of women are being celebrated all around the globe, we have gathered for you, the works of a few representative Urdu female writers and poets.

YE HAM GUNAHGAAR AURATEN

URDU WOMEN POETS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT

KISHWAR NAHEED

Kishwar Naheed is known to be an outspoken individual and a poet much to confident.She led an unconventional life and defied stereotypical expectations. Thus, she offers unapologetic models of femininity through her life and work.

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PARVEEN SHAKIR

Parveen Shakir managed to establish herself in Urdu literature like almost no other female ghazal poet. Thte classicism in her ghazals is a luminous display of her excellent craftsmanship, the thunderous quietude in her nazms is the roar of her identity as a woman.

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Fehmida Riaz

The poet and activist who wrote extensively and strongly over gender inequality, men and women struggling against the imposed morality of the bourgeois class and class conflict.

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SARA SHAGUFTA

The Pakistani modernist poet who is known for her confessional and unconventional style of Nazms. Amrita Pritam considered Sara Shagufta’s poetry close to the style of Sylvia Plath.

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