Career
Shafaie was born in a middle-class family in Srinagar. Shafaie has published two poetry collections. Derche Machrith (Open Windows) was published in 1999.
Her poetry has been translated into English, Urdu, Kannada, Tamil, Marathi and Telugu.
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Naseem Shafaie
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In 2011, She became the first Kashmiri woman to win the Sahitya Akademi Award. Her second collection Na Thsay Na Aks (Neither Shadow Nor Reflection, 2009) won the 2011 Sahitya Akademi Award for Kashmiri making Shafaie the first Kashmiri woman to win the prize. Na Thsay Na Aks was also among the eight winners of the inaugural Tagore Literature Award in 2009.
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India
Awards
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Sahitya Akademi Award; Tagore Literature Award
Sahitya Akademi Award is given by the Sahitya Akademi, India’s national academy of letters to one writer every year in each of the languages recognized by it as well as for translations.Sahitya Akademi Award is given by the Sahitya Akademi, India’s national academy of letters to one writer every year in each of the languages recognized by it as well as for translations.