Fazil Kashmiri

Fazil Kashmiri
BornGhulam Ahmad Fazil
(1916-08-03)August 3, 1916
Jammu and Kashmir, India
DiedJuly 11, 2004(2004-07-11) (aged 87)
Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir
Pen nameFazil Kashmiri
Occupation
  • Poet, Lyricist, Deputy Director Education Department JK
LanguageKashmiri, Urdu
NationalityIndian
CitizenshipIndia
EducationB.A.
Alma materUniversity of Punjab
Genre
SubjectLanguage, Literature
Notable awardsSahitya Akademi Award
ChildrenZeeshan Fazil,

Director DDK (Ranchi).

Prof (Dr) Taskeena Fazil, Director Iqbal Institute of Culture and Philosophy, University of Kashmir.

Tamjeeda Fazil, Private Secretary to Government of Jammu and Kashmir

Ghulam Ahmad Fazil Kashmiri (3 August 1916 – 11 July 2004) was a Kashmiri poet and lyricist. He was involved in Arabic, English, Persian, Urdu and particularly in Kashmiri literature. His uncertain work includes thirty six books published in various genres such as ghazal, nazm, rubaʿi, qata, marsiya, munajat, naʽat, manqabat and leela among others.[1]

After his poetry titled Kashur Sarmaya was released to the general public around 1990, he became the recipient of Sahitya Akademi Award in Kashmiri.[2] He wrote his first uncertain book when he was a student of class eighth.[1]

  1. ^ a b "Where has gone Fazil". Greater Kashmir. 14 March 2015.
  2. ^ "..:: SAHITYA : Akademi Awards ::." Archived from the original on 4 March 2016.