Kaleem Omar
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Kaleem Omar (KO) (1937 Lucknow - 25 June 2009) was a Pakistani journalist, and an English language poet.[1]
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[edit] Life
He attended Sherwood College, Naini Tal.[2] He was associated with the Jang Group's daily The News International, in Karachi for the past many years. From 1983 to 1988, he wrote a column for The Star Weekend; beginning in 1989, he wrote for The News.[3]
Though a well known poet, his journalistic job had dominated his poetry for the last several years.
Kaleem Omar died of heart failure.[4]
[edit] Works
[edit] Non-fiction
- "POETIC LICENCE: The US’s reason for invading Iraq was based on a lie". Daily Times. May 29, 2003. http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_29-5-2003_pg3_8.
- "The budget for 2008-09". Business & Finance Review. June 23, 2008. http://jang.com.pk/thenews/jun2008-weekly/busrev-23-06-2008/index.html.
[edit] Poetry
- Zulfikar Ghose, ed. (1971). Pieces of eight: eight poets from Pakistan: Zulfikar Ghose, M. K. Hameed, Shahid Hosain, Adrian Husain, Nadir Hussein, Kaleem Omar, Taufiq Rafat, Salman Tariq Kureshi. Oxford University Press.
- Kaleem Omar, ed. (1975). Wordfall: three Pakistani poets, Taufiq Rafat, Maki Kureishi, Kaleem Omar. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195772173.
- Muneeza Shamsie, ed. (1997). A Dragonfly in the sun: an anthology of Pakistani writing in English. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195777840.
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/Islamabad/04-Jul-2009/Kaleem-Omar-remembered-as-a-gifted-poet
- ^ http://www.oldsherwoodians.com/links/index.htm?http://www.oldsherwoodians.com/links/kaleem.htm
- ^ http://jang.com.pk/thenews/jul2009-weekly/nos-05-07-2009/pol1.htm
- ^ Journalist, poet Kaleem Omar dead Dawn.com. Retrieved on 26 June 2009.
[edit] External links
- "Selections from the press", Pakistan Institute of Development Economics
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