Harris Khalique

Harris Khalique
Born	(1966-10-20)October 20, 1966 Karachi
Citizenship	Pakistan
Known for	Poetry

Harris Khalique (Urdu: حارث خلیق) (born 20 October 1966) is a poet in Urdu and English, essayist, columnist, and civil society leader, based in Pakistan. He has eight collections of verse and a book of creative non-fiction behind him. He also won the ‘UBL Literary Excellence Award 2013’ in the category of Urdu poetry for his collection of verse Melay Mein (Urdu). He received the President's Award for Pride of Performance as an acknowledgement of his services topoetry on 23 March 2018.

Early life

Harris Khalique was born in Karachi, Pakistan, on 20 October 1966 to a writer-filmmaker father, Khalique Ibrahim Khalique, and a writer-teacher mother, Hamra Khalique.

Harris attended Public School Karachi Cantt., D.J. Sindh Government Science College. Later, pursued mechanical engineering from N.E.D. University of Engineering and Technology in Karachi. He did MA from London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.

Career

Harris is currently the Team leader of ‘AAWAZ – Voice and Accountability Programme’, a project of Development Alternatives Incorporated (DAI), a private development company, focusing on the rights of women and excluded groups in Pakistan.

Literary career

In 2004, he published collection of English poetry, Between You and Your Love, which was revised in 2014. In 2013, he won the ‘UBL Literary Excellence Award 2013’ in the category of Urdu poetry for his collection of verse Melay Mein (Urdu).

In 2015, he participated in the International Writing Program's Fall Residency at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, IA.

Poetry collections

• Melay Mein (Urdu, 2012). ISBN 978-969-419-044-0
• Ishq Ki Taqveem Mein (Urdu, 2006). ISBN 969-419-023-1
• Between you and your love (English, 2004, Revised and Expanded, 2012)
• Purani Numaish (Urdu, 2001)
• Saray Kaam Zaroori Thay (Urdu, 1997). ISBN 969-441-019-3
• Divan (English, 1998)
• Saray Kaam Zaroori Thay (Urdu, 1997)
• If wishes were horses (English, 1996)
• Aaj Jab Hui Baarish (Urdu, 1991)

Non-fiction

• Unfinished Histories (co-written, English, 2002). ISBN 969-516-065-4

Monographs

• The Latent Transformation: Challenges, Resilience and Successes of Pakistani Women (2011)
• Pakistan Mein Syasi Tabdeeli Ki Simt (Co-written, Urdu, 2007)
• Pakistan: The Question of Identity (2003)

Anthologies where some work appeared

• Dragonfly in the Sun – 50 years of Pakistani writing in English. Oxford University Press, 1997. ISBN 978-0195778489
• The Poetry of Men’s Lives, The University of Georgia Press. 2004. ISBN 978-0820326498
• Language for a New Century. W.W. Norton and Co., 2008. ISBN 978-0820326498
• Pakistani Urdu Verse. Oxford University Press, 2010. ISBN 978-0195478914
• Windows on the World – 50 writers, 50 views. Penguin US, 2014. ISBN 978-1594205545