Obaidullah Aleem
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Obaidullah Aleem (Urdu: عبیدالله علیم, June 12, 1939 – May 18, 1998) was a modern poet of Urdu language.
Life
Aleem was born in 1939 in Bhopal, India.[citation needed] His father lived in Sialkot and was from the Butt family.Aleem was an Ahmadi.[citation needed] He received an MA in Urdu from the University of Karachi and began working as a radio and television producer until 1967.[citation needed]
His first marriage was to Nigar Yasmin in 1970 and in late 1990s he married to Tehseen Fatima.[citation needed] In 1974, his first book of poetry Chand Chehra Sitara Ankhhen was published.[citation needed] He was the chairman of the Pakistan Television Corporation until he was forced to resign in 1978 following an edict against him.[citation needed]
His book of poetry received the highest award in literature in Pakistan, the Adamji Prize.[citation needed] He wrote an article 'Khurshid missal shakhs' in memory of Khalifatul Masih III in 1982.[citation needed] His second collection of poetry Viran saray ka diya was published in 1986. He first came to England in 1982, then in 1991, 1993, 1994, 1996 and in 1997.[citation needed]
In March 1998 he suffered a severe heart attack in Punjab and was treated in Fazl-e-Omar Hospital for a few days. He returned to his residence at Nazimabad no 4, in Karachi, in comparatively good health but died from heart failure, following a second heart attack.[citation needed]
Bibliography
- Chand chehra sitara ankhhen, (1974).
- Viran saray ka diya, (1986).
- Yei Zindagi Hey Hamari, (Selected Poems).
- Men Khhuli Huwi Ik Sachai, (Collected Prose).
- Chiragh Jaltey Hen: The Unpublished Poetry of Obaidullah Aleem, (Facsimile edition edited by Rehan Qayoom, 2014).
External links
- Obaidullah Aleem - Aleem's Ghazals (in videos) sung by famous singers
- Obaidullah Aleem - Aleem's Ghazals in Aleem's own videos & his own voice
- Obaidullah Aleem - Thoughts of a Poet
- Urdu Poet Obaidullah Aleem and his ghazal