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Her Urdu poetry has also been published in foreign languages all over the world. Her famous poem 'We Sinful Women' (Urdu: ہم گنہگار عورتیں), affectionately referred to as a women's anthem among Pakistani feminists, gave its title to a groundbreaking anthology of contemporary Urdu feminist poetry, translated and edited by Rukhsana ...
Ada Jafarey's works are mostly Ghazals, [5] but she also experimented with āzād naz̤m, [e] [28] as well as Urdu Haiku. [5] She had mastered both genres of Urdu poetry, naz̤m and ghazal. [7] In her ghazals, she took the pen name, Adā. [f] She has also written a few maẓāmīn. [g] [5]
Rekhti (Urdu: ریختی, Hindi: रेख़ती), is a form of Urdu feminist poetry. A genre developed by male poets, [1] it uses women's voices to talk about themselves. [2] [3] [4] It was formed in 19th-century Lucknow, then part of the State of Awadh (now in Uttar Pradesh, India). [1] The poet Saadat Yaar Khan Rangin is credited with its ...
Ishrat Afreen (alternative spelling: Ishrat Aafreen; born 25 December 1956) is an Urdu poet. Her works have been translated in many languages including English, Japanese, Sanskrit and Hindi. The ghazal singers Jagjit Singh & Chitra Singh also performed her poetry in their anthology, Beyond Time (1987).
Attiya Dawood (Urdu: عطیہ داؤد born April 1, 1958 [1]) is a Sindhi poet, writer, feminist and activist. She was born in Moledino Larik (a small village in Naushero Feroze, Sindh, Pakistan) [2] [3] She has been hailed as one of the most important feminist Sindhi writers of her time. [2]
Alicia Ostriker (born 1937), American poet and scholar writing Jewish feminist poetry; Grace Paley (1922–2007), American-Jewish short story writer, poet, and political activist; Sylvia Pankhurst (1882–1960), English suffragist, poet; Dorothy Parker (1893–1967), American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist
Umera Ahmad (born 1976), short story writer, novelist, playwright, author of Pir-e-Kamil; Annie Ali Khan (1980 – 21 July 2018), Pakistani writer and journalist; Shaila Abdullah (born 1971), Pakistani-American short story writer, novelist; Ishrat Afreen (born 1956), Pakistani-American poet, women's rights activist, educator
Her first language was Urdu, and she was also fluent in Arabic, Persian and Bhojpuri languages. [4]: 118 & 123 She was the first woman poet to author a diwan, a complete collection of Urdu ghazals. The collection, named Gulzar-e-Mahlaqa, comprises 39 ghazals, and each ghazal consists of 5 couplets. The collection was published in 1824 after her ...