Background
Harris Khalique was born in Karachi, Pakistan, on 20 October 1966 to a writer-filmmaker father, Khalique Ibrahim Khalique, and a writer-teacher mother, Hamra Khalique.
Harris Khalique was born in Karachi, Pakistan, on 20 October 1966 to a writer-filmmaker father, Khalique Ibrahim Khalique, and a writer-teacher mother, Hamra Khalique.
He attended Public School Karachi Cantt., Doctorate.J. Sindh Government Science College and North.E.D. University of Engineering and Technology in Karachi, before doing his master’s degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science, London, United Kingdom.
He has eight collections of verse and a book of creative non-fiction behind him. Some of his Urdu and English poems with German translation are available online. He lived, worked and studied in Europe for some time before settling down in Islamabad in 2001.
His collection of poetry, Ishq Ki Taqveem Mein (Urdu) was well received.
Harris Khalique’s interests straddle South Asian politics, human rights and international development. He has contributed to newspapers and magazines in Pakistan and abroad for more than 25 years with a weekly column in The News International for eight years.
He is currently, working with Development Alternative Incorporated. (DAI) as a consultant Non-fiction Unfinished Histories (co-written, English, 2002)- Dragonfly in the Sun – 50 years of Pakistani writing in English, Oxford University Press, 1997 () The Poetry of Men's Lives, The University of Georgia Press, 2004 () Language for a New Century, West.W. Norton and Company, 2008 () Pakistani Urdu Verse, Oxford University Press, 2010 () Windows on the World – 50 writers, 50 views, Penguin United States, 2014 ().
