Ghulam Rasool Nazki

Biography

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.