Amjad Islam Amjad Biography and Books Details

 

Amjad Islam Amjad is a writer in no need of an introduction. He is a widely followed columnist and an acclaimed lyricist but more than that he is a poet whose verses have helped many an amorous tryst in the country flourish over the decades and a television playwright whose work from the 1980s and 1990s is considered the gold standard when measuring the success – or failure – of other drama writers.

He started his professional career as a teacher at the Government Muhammadan Anglo Oriental (MAO) College, Lahore, and also worked at Pakistan Television (PTV) for a few years. Later, he held a number of senior posts at educational, literary and cultural organizations funded and run by the state such as the Urdu Science Board, Punjab Arts Council and Children Library Complex (all based in Lahore).

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Amjad espouses a populist creative sensibility that has endeared him to countless readers of poetry and viewers of television not just in Pakistan but also in other regions where Urdu is read, spoken and understood.

His poetry, voraciously consumed and quoted by young urbanising sections of society, is easy to comprehend and even easier to identify with for the lovelorn youth. His plays, too, resonate with people transitioning from a traditional agrarian rural milieu to a professional’s life in a town or city.

After completing his graduation from Civil Line College, he later got admission in the University of the Punjab. Here he completed his master degree in Urdu literature. Later he started lectureship at Government M.A.O College, Lahore. He has also been working as a director of Pakistan Television Corporation from 1975 to 1979.

Amjad Islam Amjad continued to work eagerly. He is very committed to his duties. His long-term hardworking gave him more and more fruits that with the passage of time he maintained his unique position in literal and arts community of Pakistan. In 1989, he was appointed as Director General of Urdu Science Board. He has also been attached to children library complex where he performed his duties as a project director.

Amjad Islam Amjad is working with literal and arts activities. He has for to television since a long time. Amjad Islam Amjad wrote some drama series of Pakistan Television Corporation. He is the writer of plenty of columns, translation, criticism, and essays. Although he has been working with different fields of literature, but his primary focus is on Nazams (Poems) that is an important field of Urdu poetry.

Amjad Islam Amjad has written many drams for Pakistan Television. Some of the important dramas written by him are following that made him a distinguishing personality in Pakistan.

• Waris
• Dehleez
• Samandar
• Raat
• Waqat
• Apnay log

 

Although Amjad Islam Amjad has written many plays for Pakistan Television but he has also worked in other fields like poems and Ghazals. Following are some other important writings of Amjad Islam Amjad.

• Fishar
• Barzakh
• Us Paar
• Satwan Dar
• Zara Phir Se Kehna
• Seher Aasar
• Baarish Ki Awaz
• Itnay Khwab Kahan Rakhu
• Mairy .” Hain Kuch Khwab
• Hum Us Key Hain

As Amjad Islam Amjad is also a renowned columnist, so he is welcome well by the newspapers. Since June 2008, he has joined Daily Express a well known newspaper of Pakistan. He is writing columns for this newspaper. His column is known as “Chasham-e-Tamasha”.

Amjad Islam Amjad has received many awards and prizes from different sources. Some of the crucial awards received by him are as follow.

• Pride of Performance
• Siara-e-Imtiaz
• 16 Graduate Awards
• 12 PTV Awards for the best writer