Musharraf Ali Farooqi

Musharraf Ali Farooqi
Born (1968-07-28) July 28, 1968
Hyderabad, Pakistan
Language English
Website
mafarooqi.com

Musharraf Ali Farooqi (born 26 July 1968, Hyderabad, Pakistan) is a Pakistani–Canadian writer, translator, and essayist. Farooqi was among the five writers shortlisted for Asia's most prestigious literary prize in 2012.[1] He is the Founder/Editor of URDU THESAURUS (http://urduthesaurus.com) which is provided as a free educational resource with currently featuring only synonyms, its future versions will have integrated Urdu-to-Urdu lexicons, bilingual dictionaries, and dictionaries of antonyms, idioms and proverbs.

Biography

Farooqi received his early education in Hyderabad, at St Bonaventure's High School. He later attended Model School and College in Hyderabad, Sindh and, afterwards, NED University of Engineering and Technology in Karachi for three years, though he did not finish his degree.[2]

While working as a journalist in Karachi, he also started a small literary magazine called Cipher in collaboration with his friends, Azhar Ali Abidi and Zainab Masud. This was the period when he started writing stories in English, and simultaneously translating poetry from Urdu into English. His first translation was of a poem by the contemporary poet Afzal Ahmed Syed.[3]

Farooqi is the author of the novel Between Clay And Dust, which was shortlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize. His earlier novel, The Story of a Widow, was shortlisted for the 2011 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature and considered for the 2010 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Rabbit Rap is a modernist fable for young adults. His children's books includes the collection The Amazing Moustaches of Moochhander the Iron Man and Other Stories, illustrated by Michelle Farooqi, which was shortlisted for the India ComicCon Award in the "Best Publication for Children" category, and the picture book The Cobbler's Holiday: or Why Ants Don't Wear Shoes .

Farooqi's translation of the 1871 version of Dastan-e Amir Hamza (Adventures of Amir Hamza) by Ghalib Lakhnavi and Abdullah Bilgrami was published in October 2007. He published the first book of a projected 24-volume translation of the world's first magical fantasy epic, Hoshruba,[4] in 2009. A selection from his translation of contemporary Urdu poet Afzal Ahmed Syed's poetry was published by the Wesleyan University Press Poetry Series in 2010.

Farooqi is developing the Urdu Project,[5] an online resource for the study of Urdu language and literature.

In July 2016, he launched his latest project "The URDU THESAURUS", (http://urduthesaurus.com/) available at the web and smartphones which was developed over five years. Through the Urdu Thesaurus website and app, over forty thousand unique words and phrases, and over twenty thousand sets of synonyms can be searched. As a language reference resource, it is a constantly evolving tool. Currently featuring only synonyms, its future versions will have integrated Urdu-to-Urdu lexicons, bilingual dictionaries, and dictionaries of antonyms, idioms and proverbs.[6]

He lives in Lahore, Pakistan.

Awards and honours

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Bibliography

Fiction

Translations

Essays

References

  1. ↑ Musharraf Ali Farooqi shortlisted for Man Asian Literary Prize
  2. ↑ Interview, in edition of 4 May 2008 of Dawn's Weekly Magazine, following up to the publication of Dastan-e-Ameer Hamza
  3. ↑ My Voice Unheard Profile - MAF
  4. ↑ Hoshruba
  5. ↑ Urdu Project
  6. ↑ URDU THESAURUS
  7. ↑ Alison Flood (9 January 2013). "Man Asian literary prize shortlist stages Booker re-match". The Guardian. Retrieved 9 January 2013.
  8. ↑ "Announcing the 2012 PEN Translation Fund Grant Recipients". PEN American Center. 15 October 2012. Retrieved 6 February 2013.
  9. ↑ "Shortlist for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature Announced". DSC Prize. 26 October 2010. Retrieved 24 February 2013.

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