Poets/Writers From United Kingdom

Considered the father of Modernism in Urdu literature, he was associated with the Progressive Writers’ Movement and played a pioneering role in the free-verse Urdu poetry. Faiz Ahmad Faiz honored him with the title Malik-ush-Shoara (King of Poets).

British Urdu scholar and communist. Celebrated translator of Ghalib's poetry and prose.

A great scholar of poetry and prose in Urdu and Persian. Retired university lecturer.

English poet; served as Poet Laureate during much of Queen Victoria's reign.

Prominent poet of New Ghazal in Pakistan.

An English writer and social critic.

An English novelist, playwright, screenwriter, broadcaster, and social commentator.

One of the prominent leaders of the Indian freedom movement.

English liberal historian and political essayist.

A British archaeologist and officer in the British Army.

English poet, painter, and printmaker whose visionary works have significantly influenced both Romantic and modern art and literature.

Historian of Indo-Persian relations and a world-renowned expert on Persian and Arabic manuscripts.