Ghulam Rasool Nazki
Ghulam Rasool Nazki | |
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Mir Ghulam Rasool Nazki | |
| Native name | میر غلام رسول نازکی |
| Born | Mir Ghulam Rasool Nazki March 16, 1910 Jammu and Kashmir princely state, British India |
| Died | April 16, 1998 (aged 88) Jammu and Kashmir, India |
| Resting place | Srinagar, outside Kathi Darwaza |
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| Language | Urdu, Persian, Arabic, Kashmiri |
| Alma mater | Islamia College of Science and Commerce, Srinagar |
| Genre | |
| Subjects | Aesthetics, Spiritualism, Ethics |
| Notable awards | Sahitya Akademi Award |
| Children | Farooq 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.