Tributes were paid to revolutionary poet Faiz Ahmad Faiz for his contributions to the Urdu literature, as his death anniversary was observed here on Friday. Various functions were organised in this regard. Faiz was born on February 13, 1911 in Kala Kader village, Sialkot where he got his early education. He began his professional career as a lecturer of English.
After the Second World War Faiz joined field of journalism and distinguished himself as the editor of Pakistan Times. As a poet Faiz began writing on the conventional themes of love and beauty but soon these conventional themes got submerged in larger social and political issues of the day.
The poetic works of the late legendary poet has won the hearts of the people of South Asia. His first published accumulation was Naqsh-e-Faryadi which inspired many young poets. In 1971 after the bifurcation of united Pakistan the newly-elected government appointed him as a cultural adviser the period in which he laid the foundation of the Pakistan National Council of Arts (PNCA). Faiz remarkable books were Nuskha-e-Hai Wafa, Naqsh-e-Faryadi, Dast-e-Saba, Zindan Nama, and Dast-e-Tah-e-Sang. Faiz was the first Asian poet who was awarded with the Lenin Peace Prize by the former Soviet Union in 1963.
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