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Renowned Australian Pakistani Poetess Noshi Gilani reciting Mushaira in Spain on Pakistan Day 2018
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Noshi Gilani
Noshi Gilani was born in Bahawalpur, Pakistan. She is an Urdu poet of international fame and a former academic from the Bahawalpur University, Punjab, Pakistan. She is one of the leading Urdu poets in Pakistan and has successfully published five collections of poetry. She is world known and No:1 Female Poetess of Pakistan.
In 2008, her poetry was translated into English and her poems were read in the UK, with the Poetry Translation Centre's World Poets' Tour. She hosted a tribute to folk singer Pathanay Khan, sponsored by the Pakistan National Council of the Arts (PNCA).
Noshi Gilani settled in San Francisco
USA in 1995 but after her marriage to Saeed Khan she decided to move to
Australia. She married Saeed Khan, an Australian-based Urdu poet on 25 October
2008 and they currently reside in Sydney Australia. As a President of “Urdu
Academy of Australia” Noshi Gilani is working hard for promoting Urdu &
Punjabi literature and also hosting International Mushaira in Sydney and other
Australian cities. Her New poetry book is publishing in the end of
2018.
The candour and frankness of her
highly-charged poems is unusual for a woman writing in Urdu and she has gained
a committed international audience, performing regularly at large poetry
gatherings in Pakistan, Australia, Canada and the US. Unknown outside the
Pakistani community, the translations here mark her introduction to an
English-speaking audience.
She is a member of younger generation of
female poets. Her experience of living in US shows a notable impact on her
significant number of poems. Living through Diaspora has increased the
complexity of her poems and reinforced her sense of female identity and
introduced a new revolution against restraint creative writers in Pakistani
society.
Noshi Gilani's
Poetry books:
1. Mohabatain Jab
Sumar Kurna (When you would count affections, 1993)
2. Udas Honay Kay Din
Naheen (These are not the days of sadeness, 1997)
3. Pehla Lafz Mohabat
Likha (The first word was written "Love", 2003)
4. Selected poems like Ay
Meeray Shareek-E-Risal-E-Jaan,
5. Hum Tera Intezaar Kurtey Rahey (And I kept
waiting you!) (2008).
6. Noshi Gillani poems, Enitharmon Press, (15 Sep
2008), translators: Lavinia Greenlaw; Nukhbah Langah.
