Firaq Gorakhpuri
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| Born | Raghupati Sahay 28 August 1896 Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, India |
| Died | 3 March 1982 (aged 85) New Delhi, India |
| Pen name | Firaq Gorakhpuri |
| Occupation | Poet, writer, critic, scholar, lecturer, orator |
| Language | Urdu, English, Hindi |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Education | M.A. in English literature |
| Genres | Poetry, Literary criticism |
| Notable work(s) | Gul-e-Naghma |
| Notable award(s) | Padma Bhushan (1968) Jnanpith Award (1969) Sahitya Akademi Fellowship (1970) |
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Raghupati Sahay (28 August 1896 – 3 March 1982), better known under his pen name Firaq Gorakhpuri (Urdu: فراق گورکھپوری, Hindi: फ़िराक़ गोरखपुरी), was a writer, critic, and one of the most noted[1] contemporary Urdu poets from India. He established himself as one of the greats in an era which boasted stalwarts like Iqbal, Yagana Changezi, Jigar and Josh.
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[edit] Biography
Raghupati Sahay was born in 1896, in Gorakhpur, into a Hindu family. He was selected for the Provincial Civil Service (P.C.S.) and the Indian Civil Service (I.C.S.), but he resigned to follow Mahatma Gandhi's Non-cooperation movement, for which he went to jail. Later, he joined Allahabad University as a lecturer in English literature. It was there that he wrote most of his Urdu poetry, including his magnum opus Gul-e-Naghma which earned him the highest literary award of India, the Jnanpith Award, and also the 1960 Sahitya Akademi Award in Urdu. During his life, he was given the positions of Research Professor at the University Grants Commission and Producer Emeritus by All India Radio. After a long illness, he died on March 3, 1982, in New Delhi.
As a distinguished poet, Firaq Gorakhpuri was well-versed in all traditional metrical forms such as ghazal, nazm, rubaai and qat'aa. He was a prolific writer, having written more than a dozen volumes of Urdu poetry, a half dozen of Urdu prose, several volumes on literary themes in Hindi, as well as four volumes of English prose on literary and cultural subjects.
[edit] Selected works
- Gul-e-Naghma
- Gul-e-Ra'naa
- Mash'aal
- Rooh-e-Kaayenaat
- Roop (Rubaayi)
- Shabistaan
- Sargam
- Bazm-e-Zindagi Rang-e-Shayri
- Urdu Ki Ishqia Shayeri (Urdu Love Poetry)
[edit] Awards
- 1960 – Sahitya Akademi Award in Urdu
- 1968 – Padma Bhushan
- 1968 – Soviet Land Nehru Award
- 1969 – Jnanpith Award (First Jnanpith Award for Urdu literature)[2]
- 1970 – Sahitya Akademi Fellowship
- 1981 – Ghalib Academi Award
[edit] References
- ^ In his autobiography Yaadon ki baraat, the poet Josh Malihabadi wrote that after Mir and Ghalib, Firaq is the greatest Urdu poet of India.
- ^ "Jnanpith Laureates Official listings". Jnanpith Website. http://jnanpith.net/laureates/index.html.
[edit] External links
- (Hindi) Firaq Gorakhpuri at Kavita Kosh
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