Ghulam Rasool Nazki

Ghulam Rasool Nazki
Mir Ghulam Rasool Nazki
Native name
میر غلام رسول نازکی
BornMir Ghulam Rasool Nazki
(1910-03-16)March 16, 1910
Jammu and Kashmir princely state, British India
DiedApril 16, 1998(1998-04-16) (aged 88)
Jammu and Kashmir, India
Resting placeSrinagar, outside Kathi Darwaza
Occupation
  • Poet
  • Writer
  • Broadcaster
  • Teacher
LanguageUrdu, Persian, Arabic, Kashmiri
Alma materIslamia College of Science and Commerce, Srinagar
Genre
SubjectsAesthetics, Spiritualism, Ethics
Notable awardsSahitya Akademi Award
ChildrenFarooq Nazki
Bilal Nazki
Ayaz Rasool Nazki

Mir Ghulam Rasool Nazki (16 March 1910 16 April 1998), also spelled Meer Ghulam Rasul Naazki, was a Kashmiri poet, writer, broadcaster, and teacher. He wrote books, including poetry in regional and foreign languages such as Urdu, Persian, Arabic and later work in Kashmiri language. The recipient of Sahitya Akademi Award for Awaz-e-dost, a Kashmiri poetry, he is also credited as the "first Kashmiri writer" to write in Rupublic of India after independence, and the first poet to resuscitate quatrain poetic form in Kashmiri literature, which originally began during the period of thirteen and fourteenth century poets such as Lal Ded and Nund Reshi.

He wrote poetry on various subjects and in poetic genres such as rubaʿi, spiritualism, moral philosophy, gazals, aesthetics and in satirical genre.