Background
Arif, Iftikhar Husain was born on March 21, 1943 in Lucknow, India.
Arif, Iftikhar Husain was born on March 21, 1943 in Lucknow, India.
Master of Arts, University Lucknow, 1963. Master of Arts in Sociology, University Lucknow, 1965.
With Radio Pakistan External Services, 1966-1968. Senior producer, scripts editor, head of scripts department Pakistan television Karachi, 1968-1977. Executive in charge of Urdu Markaz Third World Foundation, London, since 1977.
Presenter, interviewer British Broadcasting Corporation television, Asian unit. Participant numerous seminars on Urdu literature and poetry symposiums in India, Pakistan, Norway, Canada, United States and United Arab Emirates.
(A selection of poems in Urdu along with translations in E...)
Recipient Best Book of Year award Pakistan Writers Guild, 1984, Faiz Ahmad Faiz poetry award World Urdu Conference, Delhi, 1988, Poetry award Hindi-Urdu Literary Academy, Lucknow, 1988.