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Faiz Ahmad Faiz

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Faiz Ahmed Faiz (1911 - 1984 AD), is considered by many to be the last of the great Urdu poets in the line of Ghalib and Iqbal. He was born in Sialkot, Pakistan and died in Lahore. Faiz was a member of the Progressive Writer's Movement and an avowed Marxist. In 1962 he was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize by the Soviet Union.

See also: Urdu poetry