Shamsur Rahman Faruqi | |
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Born | Shamsur Rahman Faruqi 30 September 1935 India |
Died | 25 December 2020 Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh | (aged 85)
Nationality | Indian |
Occupation(s) | poet, critic |
Shamsur Rahman Faruqi (30 September 1935 – 25 December 2020) was an Indian poet and an Urdu critic and theorist. He used criticism found in Western literature and added them to Urdu literature. [1] He was also editor of his literary magazine Shabkhoon and part-time professor at the South Asia Regional Studies Center at the University of Pennsylvania.
Faruqi died on 25 December 2020 in Allahabad from Covid-19 at the age of 85.[2]