One of the greatest modern Urdu writers Shamsur Rahman Faruqi died on December 25, 2020 in Allahabad. He was 85.
- He was not only a writer and poet, but also a critic who formulated a modernist framework for evaluating Urdu literature.
- He received Saraswati Samman for ‘She`r-e Shor-Angez’, a four-volume study of the 18th-century poet Mir Taqi Mir.
- He won Sahitya Akademi award in 1986 bor his book ‘Tanqidi Afqar’ that reflected on modern literary and critical theories of poetry
- In 1966, he founded ‘Shabkhoon’, a magazine that he edited for four decades.
(Source: Indian Express)
