Thursday, December 23, 2010

The Awards of Faiz Ahmed Faiz:

Faiz Ahmed Faiz was a great poet who won many award.Faiz was the first Asian poet to be awarded the Lenin Peace Prize, the Soviet Union's equivalent to the Nobel Prize in 1963. Other notable recipients include Pablo Neruda, Nelson Mandela, W.E.B. Dubois, Bertolt Brecht, Fidel Castro and Nobel Prize winning Chemist Linus Pauling. The real award for a poet is the love and appreciation of his fans and Faiz enjoyed both for most of his life. He recorded for the Library of Congress in 1977 which has fifty two works by him . Before his death in 1984 ... 

2 comments:

Dr Rais Samdani said...

Faiz was Principal as a student i did my Inter from Abdullah Haroon College Karachi where he was the Principal, after that i served in the same College for the 23 years.

Dr Rais Samdani said...

Faiz was Principal as a student i did my Inter from Abdullah Haroon College Karachi where he was the Principal, after that i served in the same College for the 23 years.

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