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Faiz Ahmed ''Faiz'' (فيض ١حمد فيض), ( 1984 - 1911 ) is considered by many to be a poet in the great tradition of Urdu poets like Ghalib and Iqbal . He was born in Sialkot , in the Punjab in pre-independence India (in what is now Pakistan ). He remained in Pakistan after the Partition of 1947 , and died in Lahore . Faiz was a member of the Anjuman Tarraqi Pasand Mussanafin-e-Hind (Progressive Writers' Movement) , and an avowed Marxist . In 1962 he was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize by the Soviet Union . In the 1930 s Faiz Ahmed Faiz married a British women Alys Faiz . They had two daughters. Alys Faiz 's influence on Faiz's life and poetry is reputed to have been great. FAMILY Faiz was born in Sialkot on February 13 , 1911 , in the province of Punjab in what was then Undivided India . His father, a barrister, was known as Khan Bahadur Sultan Muhammad Khan. Studies His early religious studies were at the Masjid (Mosque) Maulvi Muhammad Ibrahim Mir Sialkoti. He went to Scotch Mission School , Sialkot . He did his intermediate from Murray College , Sialkot . His Main teachers include ShamsUlUllamah Syed Mir Hasan ( Arabic ), Professor Yousuf Saleem Chishti ( Urdu ). He attended Gov. College Lahore and received his Master Of Arts in English Literature . He then attended the Oriental College in Lahore and received his MA in Arabic Literature . Career Faiz started a branch of Anjuman Tarraqi Pasand Mussanafin-e-Hind in Punjab in 1936. Also he was a Member and Secretary of this branch. Faiz was also an Editor of Mahanama (Monthly) Adab-e-Lateef (1938-1942 AD).Faiz became a lecturer in English at M. A. O. College, Amritsar in 1935 and then at Hailey College of Commerce, Lahore. He breifly joined the British Indian Army and was promoted to the rank of Lieut. Colonel in 1944 . He resigned from the Army in 1947 and returned to Lahore at partition. In 1959 he was appointed as Secretary, Pakistan Arts Council and worked in that capacity till 1962 . Returning from London in 1964 he settled down in Karachi and was appointed as Principal, Abdullah Haroon College , Karachi. Editorship of the monthly magazine ''Adabe-Latif'' from 1947 to 1958. Faiz distiguished himself as a journalist and was editor of the Pakistan Times, the Urdu newspaper Imroze and the weekly Lail-o-Nihar. In the 1965 war between India & Pakistan he worked in an honorary capacity in the Department of Information. In exile he acted as Editor of the magazine Lotus in Moscow , London and Beirut . IMPRISONMENT Faiz was charged with complicity in a failed coup attempt known as the Rawalpindi Conspiracy Case and was sentenced to four years' imprisonment in 1951. The jail term gave him a first-hand experience of the harsh realities of life, and provided him with the much-needed solitude to think and write poetry. Two of his greatest works Dast-e-Saba and '''Zindan-Nama''' were products of this period of imprisonment. PUBLICATIONS
AWARDS Faiz was the first Asian poet to be awarded the Lenin Peace Prize , the Soviet Union's equivalent to the Nobel Prize in 1963. Other notable recipients include Pablo Neruda , Nelson Mandela , W.E.B. Dubois , Bertolt Brecht , Fidel Castro and Nobel Prize winning Chemist Linus Pauling . The real award for a poet is the love and appreciation of his fans and Faiz enjoyed both for most of his life. He recorded for the Library of Congress in 1977 which has fifty two works by him {Link without Title} . Before his death in 1984 he was also nominated for the Nobel Prize . SEE ALSO
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