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Abdur Rehman Rahi (born 6 May 1925, Srinagar) is a Kashmiri poet, translator and critic. He was awarded the Indian Sahitya Akademi Award in 1961 for his poetry collection Nawroz-i-Saba, the Padma Shri in 2000,[1] and India's highest literary award, the Jnanpith Award (for the year 2004) in 2007. He is the first Kashmiri writer to be awarded the Jnanpith, India's highest literary award for his poetic collection Siyah Rood Jaeren Manz (In Black Drizzle ). He was honored with Sahitya Akademi Fellowship in 2000 by Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi.[2]
Career
Rehman Rahi (1925-) began his career as a clerk in the Public Works Department of the Government for few months in 1948 and was associated with the Progressive Writers' Association, of which he became the General Secretary.[citation needed] He also edited a few issues of Kwang Posh, the literary journal of the Progressive Writer's Association. He was later a sub-editor in the Urdu daily Khidmat. He did an M.A. in Persian (1952) and in English (1962) from Jammu and Kashmir University where he taught Persian. He was on the editorial board of the Urdu daily Aajkal in Delhi from 1953 to 1955.[citation needed] He was also associated with the Cultural wing of communist Party of Kashmir during his student days. As translator he did excellent translation of Baba Farid's Sufi poetry to Kashmiri from Original Punjabi. Camus and Sartre are some visible effects on his poems while Dina nath Naadim's influence on his poetry is also visible especially in earlier works.[3]
Published works
Rahi's major works include:[4]
- Sana-Wani Saaz (poems) (1952)
- Sukhok Soda (poems)
- Kalam-e-Rahi (poems)
- Nawroz-i-Saba (poems) (1958)
- Kahwat (literary criticism)
- Kashir Shara Sombran
- Azich Kashir Shayiri
- Kashir Naghmati Shayiri
- Baba Fareed (translation)
- Saba Moallaqat
- Farmove Zartushtadia
References
- ^ "Padma Awards" (PDF). Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 October 2015. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
- ^ Rahman Rahi, New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi
- ^ "Jnanpith is for the Kashmiri language: Rahi". The Hindu. 11 March 2007. Archived from the original on 13 March 2007.
- ^ http://www.greaterkashmir.com/Home/Newsdetails.asp?newsid=4960&Arch=Arch&issueid=171[dead link]
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- Announcements of the Jnanpith award in The Hindu, Indian Express, and Greater Kashmir
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