Dr. Kanwal Feroze, a renowned Urdu Poet

Dr. Kanwal Feroze

Kanwal Feroze is a Pakistani scholar, poet, writer and journalist. He was born in 1938 in Ferozpur, India and migrated to Sargodha, Pakistan in 1958. He moved to Lahore in 1969 and has since been playing an important role in the literary activities of the city.

He is the Chief Editor of the monthly Urdu language journal Shadaab. An independent, socio-politcal and literary magazine, specialising in minority issues and promoting inter-religious peace and harmony since 1969.

He has a Ph.D. in Community Journalism from the Pan American University in Illinois USA.

Dr. K. Feroze is a renowned poet, writer and journalist of Pakistan who is credited with being the author of four poetry books: "Shehar-e-Saleeb-o-Gul" (1967), "Shakh-e-Shab-e-Wisaal" (1992), "Sham-e-Firat-e-Dil" (2002) and "Shafaq-e-Subh-e-Ghazal" (2009).

Although his poetry has won him great fame and honour in the elite scholarly and literary circles of Pakistan, his real popularity among the common Urdu readers of Pakistan, and espacially among those belonging to the minorities, is due to his socio-political and literary magazine, "Shadab", which he founded and has edited since 1969.

Dr. Kanwal Feroze is the recipient of several major awards and prizes. The latest and most important of these prizes is "Tamgha-e-Imtiaz" (President's Medal of Excellence), bestowed upon him by the Government of Pakistan in 2009.

In February 2005 he was honoured by the Pakistan Academy of Letters.