Ghulam Nabi Firaq

Who is Ghulam Nabi Firaq?

Ghulam Nabi Firaq is a Kashmiri poet, writer and an educationist. For the last fifty years he has been writing poetry and prose. In doing so he has used, besides traditional ones, several poetic forms including blank verse, free verse, sonnets, quatrains, metric poems and lyrics. He has also translated dozens of English poems of outstanding English poets into Kashmiri. As a result of all this, he has enriched the expression of the language and made it more suitable for communicating his sensibility which in nature is modern. Besides, he has been writing essays and articles in Kashmiri language, which is his mother tongue, and which he has made the vehicle of expression from early fifties. As a literary critic and historian he has been trying to evaluate the Kashmiri poetry of the last five hundred years and rehabilitate it by bringing to prominence among other things its intrinsic merit and power of expression. He also holds the Sahitya Akademi Award for his works in Kashmiri literature. He is regarded as one of the very few people of Kashmir who has been trying to preserve the rich Kashmiri culture, heritage and language.

As an educationist he has tried his best to reach all sections of society to help them in uplifting their educational standards. He is co-founder of Standard Public High School, established in 1975.