Poets/Writers From London

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

One of the most prominent and trend-setter modern poets

Asad Amanat Ali was a famed ghazal and classical singer from Pakistan and the son of Amanat Ali Khan. He hailed from the Patiala Gharana of musicians.

Medical doctor / Living in London

Legendary English poet of the second generation of Romantic poets.

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

One of the prominent poets who infused modern ghazal with a fresh sense of feeling and imaginative power

Popular Pakistani poet, known for his romantic poems and ghazals

A poet known for his nauhas and poems on the Karbala

A people’s poet with progressive leanings, also served as the president of Progressive Writers Association of UK

Renowned Urdu fiction writer, novelist and one of the pioneers of the Progressive writers’ movement in the subcontinent.

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