Sajjad Zaheer
Marxist writer and organiser
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| Intro | Marxist writer and organiser | |||||||||
| Places | India | |||||||||
| was | Writer Politician Poet | |||||||||
| Work field | Literature Politics | |||||||||
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| Birth | 5 November 1905, Lucknow, India | |||||||||
| Death | 11 September 1973Almaty, Kazakhstan (aged 67 years) | |||||||||
| Star sign | Scorpio | |||||||||
| Politics: | Communist Party Of Pakistan Communist Party Of India | |||||||||
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Biography
Syed Sajjad Zaheer (Urdu: سید سجاد ظہیر) (5 November 1899 – 13 September 1973) was an Urdu writer, Marxist ideologue and radical revolutionary who worked in both India and Pakistan. In the pre-independence era, he was a member of the Communist Party of India. Upon independence and partition, he moved to the newly created Pakistan and became a founding member of the Communist Party of Pakistan.
Revolutionary writer
A collection of short stories, Angaaray (embers), which had stories by Sajjad Zaheer, Ahmed Ali, Rashid Jahan and Mahmud-uz-Zafar was published in 1932 and banned in 1933 by the British Government of India "for hurting the religious susceptibilities of a section of the community." This gave rise to the All-India Progressive Writers' Movement & Association of which both Sajjad Zaheer and Ahmed Ali were co-founders.
Personal life
Sajjad and his wife Razia Sajjad Zaheer had four daughters, including Naseem Bhatia, who holds a PhD in History (ancient history) from a Russian university.
Published writings
- London Ki Ek Raat لندن کی ایک رات - a novel.
- Roshnai روشنائی, a collection of essays on the progressive writers movement and its objectives.
- Zikr-e-Hafiz زکرِخافظ, his research based book on the Persian poet Hafez.
- Pighla Nilamپِگھلا نیلم , his last book,a collection of his poetry.
- A translation of Shakespeare's Othello
- A translation of Candide
- A translation of Gora (novel written by Tagore)
- A translation of The Prophet (written by Khalil Gibran)