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Ishrat Afreen is a renowned Urdu poet and writer. She was born in Karachi, Pakistan on 25 December 1956. She is best known for her works in Urdu poetry, which have been published in various anthologies and magazines. She has also written several books, including a collection of short stories, a novel, and a collection of essays.
Ishrat Afreen has been awarded several awards for her work, including the Pride of Performance Award in 2006, the Sitara-e-Imtiaz in 2008, and the Hilal-e-Imtiaz in 2011. She has also been honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Pakistan Academy of Letters in 2017.
Ishrat Afreen is married and has two children. She currently resides in Karachi, Pakistan.
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25 December |
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Karachi, Pakistan |
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Pakistan |
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Afreen also received the Ahmed Adaya Award from Urdu Markaz International in Los Angeles on 9 December 2006 after her book, Dhoop Apne Hisse Ki was selected by the International Urdu Jury as Best Urdu Poetry Publication of 2004–2005.
In September 1999, she partook in the International Poetry Festival in Stavanger, Norway.
Afreen has been invited to attend many International Conferences and Festivals. She was selected to represent Pakistan in the Kavita Asia Asian Poetry Festival of 1988 in Bhopal, India which celebrated the greatest literary minds from across the Asian continent.
Afreen was honoured with many prestigious awards including the Sajjad Zaheer Award in 1986. Afreen received this honour on the 50th anniversary celebration of the Progressive Writers' Association of India in New Delhi.
She married Syed Perwaiz Jafri, an Indian lawyer in 1985 and migrated to India. Five years thereafter, the couple and their two children migrated to America. They now reside in Houston, Texas with their three children.
Afreen has published two collections of poetry entitled Kunj Peeleh Poolon Ka (1985) and Dhoop Apne Hisse Ki (2005). Amongst others, she has been included in the prestigious anthology We Sinful Women and inspired the well-known anthology Beyond Belief: Contemporary Feminist Urdu Poetry. Ishrat Afreen ki Shairi was a book written solely on Afreen's poetry by novelist and literary critic Ikram Barelvi. From Beyond Belief:
Ishrat Jehan was born into an educated family in Karachi, Pakistan as the oldest of five children. She later took the pen name Ishrat Afreen.
She was first published at the age of 14 in the Daily Jang on 31 April 1971. She continued writing and was published in a multitude of literary magazines across India and Pakistan. She eventually became assistant editor for the monthly magazine Awaaz, edited by the poet Fahmida Riaz. Parallel to her writing career she participated in several radio shows on Radio Pakistan from 1970–1984 that aired nationally and globally. She later worked under Mirza Jamil on the now universal Noori Nastaliq Urdu script for InPage.
Ishrat Afreen (Urdu: عشرت آفرین; Hindi: इशऱत आफरीन; alternative spelling: Ishrat Aafreen; born 25 December 1956) is an Urdu poet and women's rights activist named one of the five most influential and trend-setting female voices in Urdu Literature. Her works have been translated in many languages including English, Japanese, Sanskrit and Hindi. The renowned ghazal singers Jagjit Singh & Chitra Singh also performed her poetry in their anthology, Beyond Time (1987). Famed actor Zia Mohyeddin also recites her nazms in his 17th and 20th volumes as well as his ongoing concerts.
