Taufiq Rafat

Taufiq Rafat was born on 25 October 1927 in Sialkot, in Punjab, and studied at Aligarh and Lahore. An English-language poet, he ran workshops that left their mark on younger poets, and he translated into English the epic of Puran Bhagat, by Qadir Yar, and the Sufi poetry of Bulleh Shah. He has been nicknamed the Ezra Pound of Pakistan and is credited with the notion of a “Pakistani idiom” in English-language literature. He stopped writing in 1984 and died in Lahore in 1998.

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• PoetryArrival of the MonsoonTaufiq Rafat · 1985Literature