We could call Pakistan a land of very gifted authors, one of whom we are to discuss below. Faiz Ahmed Faiz was the first chief editor of Pakistan Times. He had master degrees both in English and Arabic and is famous for his Urdu works. Among his journalistic career is interesting to be mentioned that he was assigned as an editor of several other newspapers like the monthly Mahanama, Imroze and Lail-o-Nihar.
Some of the main ideas that he communicates through his works is the firm disagreement with the vast bloodshed accompanying the event of the actual process of the separation of Bangladesh from Pakistan. The deep devotion to God also influenced his poems for he liked to delve into the mystical dimension of Islam, an approach known as Sufism.
Curious trivia is that Faiz Ahmed Faiz had several things in common with the renown Pakistan poet Iqbal. For starters they both were born in the same town Sialkot. Faizs father was close friend with Iqbal for they were both studying Law in Cambridge. Faiz and Iqbal shared same teachers. Iqbal even wrote a special letter to the principal of Government College, where Faiz was applying, given that he had heard the young talent reciting his own poems with passion and devotion. The sincere admiration of Faiz towards the works of Iqbal resulted in him writing a special poem called Iqbal, which in fact won the first prize and was published in the college journal.
Faizs first job was that of an English college lecturer, which he gladly took for it was period of great turmoil affected by the Great Depression. Some difficult times in his life include the four years he spent in prison for a political misunderstanding. A positive side of this dark period is that he was able to focus on poetry, which with being editor of Pakistan Times was quite impossible for him and he had left this fascination of his aside. He managed to create two collections among which are poems most favored by his admirers. The second of which, The Breezes hand, he dedicated to his British wife Alys, who was given by his mother the Muslim name of Kulsoom. After prison Faiz wrote a screen play, which he later adapted for a movie script.
A great act of recognition of Faizs talent was the awarded the Soviet award Lenin Peace Prize, which in its significance resembled the Nobel Prize.
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