Akhtar Raza Saleemi is a Pakistani poet

Poet

A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...

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He considered one of the best and popular modern Urdu

Urdu

Urdu is a register of the Hindustani language that is identified with Muslims in South Asia. It belongs to the Indo-European family. Urdu is the national language and lingua franca of Pakistan. It is also widely spoken in some regions of India, where it is one of the 22 scheduled languages and an...

 poets of the new generation having a different and sound style of writing . He is one of those very few serious and committed poets who have a wide vision of life .He looks not considering poetry as a pastime or a game of words ,on the contrary he takes it as a
pivot of his life and soul . His poetry has a thought provoking and a philosophical touch.

Biography

Akhtar Raza Saleemi(اختر رضا سلیمی) was born on 16 June 1974, at Kekot, a village of disstt Hari Pur, Khaybar Pakhtoon Khwa. He received his early education from his native village then he went to Karachi where he got his matriculation certificate, after that he settled in Islamabad. He graduated from llama Iqbal Open University]. Now he is working as editor (Urdu) in Pakistan Academy of Letters, Islamabad

Publications

• Ikhtara 2003 اختراع
• Irtafa 2008 ارتفاع
• Khushbu marey saath chal pari hayخوشبو مرے ساتھ چل پڑی ہے)…2009)

In pipeline

• Manzar ik bulandi per (منظر اک بلندی ہر) ( urdu poetry)
• Har paasey parchaanwaan maahra(ہر پاسے پرچھاواں مھاڑا) ( Potohaari poetry)
• Ye wohi alfaaz hain(یہ وہی الفاظ ہیں) ( translations from Punjabi)

Achievements

• Quaid e aazam literary gold medal for 2009
• A master’s level theses has been done on his poetry and career from national university of modern languages (numl) in 2009.

Published and interviewed in

Fanoon , oraaq , adbiyaat ,seep, maah e no, takhleeq, symbol, adab e lateef, nairang e khayal, tasteer.bayaaz, sher o sukhan, inkot, canvas,sareer, asbaaq.roshnaayi, dastaavez, chahaar soo, and many other national and international journals and news papers.