Ishaq Samejo
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18 March 1975
- Poet
- critic
- academic
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| Native name | اسحاق سميجو |
| Born | Muhammad Ishaq Samejo 18 March 1975 Fazalpur, Dadu District, Sindh, Pakistan |
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| Language | Sindhi |
| Education | MA, PhD (Sindhi literature) |
| Alma mater | University of Sindh |
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| Notable awards | Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai Award (2022) |
Muhammad Ishaq Samejo (Sindhi: اسحاق سميجو; born 18 March 1975) is a Pakistani Sindhi-language poet and literary critic. He is a professor in the Department of Sindhi at the University of Sindh and has served as chairman of the Sindhi Language Authority since 2022.[1][2]
Samejo was born on 18 March 1975 in the village of Fazalpur, Dadu District, Sindh.[3] He matriculated from Talibul Moula High School in Dadu and completed his higher secondary education at a college in Johi.[citation needed] He took his MA in Sindhi literature at the University of Sindh, Jamshoro, and completed a PhD at the same university in 2014.[4]
Career
Samejo began publishing poetry and criticism in 1990.[citation needed] He joined the Department of Sindhi at the University of Sindh as a lecturer and was later promoted to professor.[5] He has held the Mirza Kalich Beg Chair and chaired the Department of Sindhi at the university,[6] and has served as director of the Institute of Sindhology.[7]
In 2022, Samejo was appointed chairman of the Sindhi Language Authority, a statutory body of the Government of Sindh.[1] He sits on the advisory board of the Authority's research journal Sindhi Boli[8] and has served on the Sindhi-language judging panel of the Pakistan Academy of Letters.[9]
