Jawayd Anwar
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- Poet
- doctor
- psychiatrist
Jawayd Anwar | |
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 Anwar in c. 2005–2007 | |
| Born | 18 April 1959 |
| Died | 25 November 2011 (aged 52) Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan |
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| Language | Urdu |
| Alma mater | |
| Period | 1991–2011 |
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| Literary movement | Halqa-e Arbab-e Zauq |
| Notable works | Shahr Mayn Sham |
| Children | 4 |
Jawayd Anwar[a] (18 April 1959 – 25 November 2011) was a Pakistani poet and writer. He is widely recognized as a significant writer in modern Urdu poetry, particularly for his nazms (thematic poems). He authored four volumes of poetry, including a posthumous collection published in 2016 titled Barzakh Kay Phul.
Jawayd Anwar was born on 18 April 1959 in the Sant Nagar suburb of Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.[1] The eldest member of a Bhatti family that emigrated from eastern Punjab of British India, he spent most of his childhood in Shahinabad, Sargodha.[1] His father, Anwar Ali Bhatti, belonged to the city of Amritsar and worked as a civil servant in the Punjab Irrigation Department whereas Jawayd's mother, Nasir Akhtar, was a native of Jalandhar.[1] His grandfather, Chaudhry Zahuruddin Bhatti, was a local zamindar who had migrated to Pakistan in the wake of the partition of India in 1947.[1]
Anwar attended Government Primary School in southern Sargodha and later enrolled at the Punjab Medical College in Faisalabad and also studied at the Oriental College in Lahore.[1] After completing his MBBS, Anwar served at the Lahore General Hospital and later at the Allama Iqbal Medical College.[1] Anwar was also a qualified psychiatrist.[2] Anwar was fluent in at least four languages, Urdu, Punjabi, English and German, and also had a working knowledge of Persian.[1]
Poetic career
During his time in Sargodha, Anwar had become associates with several poetic figures such as the likes of Khurshid Rizvi, Ghulam-us-Saqlain Naqvi and Wazir Agha.[1] It was here from where Anwar became fond of Urdu poetry and actively began writing poems in his teenage.[1] In an interview in the 1980s, Anwar said that he may have begun writing poetry when he was in grade nine or ten.[3]
While on a short return to Pakistan, Anwar spent a few days at a mushaira with poets in Islamabad and died of a sudden heart attack in Lahore on 25 November 2011.[4] One of his last poems Agr Apnay Betay Ko Tum Nay Usama Kaha ("if you named your son Usama") became a topic of discussion for its style among intellectuals and was considered innovative in modern Urdu literature.[5][6] Members of the Urdu literary community expressed condolences at his demise and his funeral prayers were held at the EME Mosque.[4] Days following his demise, Urdu literary critic Mansoor Afaq dedicated a short poem to Anwar titled Nazm Marr Gai Hai ("poem has died").[7]