9 September 1911 Badaun district, United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, India
Died
9 February 2002(2002-02-09) (aged 90) Delhi, India
Occupation
Professor, Poet, Critic
Language
Urdu
Nationality
Indian
Alma mater
Aligarh Muslim University
Genre
Literary criticism, Ghazal
Notable awards
Padma Bhushan (1991)
Sahitya Akademi Award (1974)
Part of a series on
Progressive Writers' Movement
Members
Urdu writers
Sajjad Zaheer
Ahmed Ali
M. D. Taseer
Hajrah Begum
Rashid Jahan
Razia Sajjad Zaheer
Abdul Aleem
Faiz Ahmad Faiz
Majaz
Ahmad Faraz
Ismat Chughtai
Saadat Hasan Manto
Kaifi Azmi
Jan Nisar Akhtar
Shamim Karhani
Shahid Ahmad Dehlvi
Josh Malihabadi
Sahir Ludhianvi
Majrooh Sultanpuri
Ghulam Mustafa Tabassum
Ali Sardar Jafri
Akhtar ul Iman
Majnun Gorakhpuri
Firaq Gorakhpuri
Sibte Hassan
Habib Jalib
Ale Ahmad Suroor
Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi
Akhtar Husain
Fikr Taunsvi
Habib Tanvir
Salma Siddiqui
Krishan Chander
Khatir Ghaznavi
Muhammad Ali Siddiqui
Sulaiman Areeb
Hameed Akhtar
Shaukat Siddiqui
Salaam Machhalishahari
Aziz Qaisi
Khawar Rizvi
Hajra Masroor
K. A. Abbas
Mohiuddin Qadri Zore
English writers
Mulk Raj Anand
Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya
Bengali writers
Somen Chanda
Pramod Ranjan Sengupta
Bishnu Dey
Punjabi writers
Amrita Pritam
Ahmad Rahi
Hindi writers
Premchand
Kashmiri writers
Rehman Rahi
Dinanath Nadim
Marathi writers
Mama Varerkar
Notable works
Angarey
Atish Paray
Twilight in Delhi
Manto Ke Afsanay
Dhuan
Related Organisations
Communist Party of India
Indian People's Theatre Association
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Ale Ahmad Suroor (1911-2002) was an Urdu poet, critic and professor from India. He is best known for his literary criticism. In 1974 he was honoured with the Sahitya Akademi Award by the Government of India for his literary critic work, Nazar aur Nazariya. In 1991 he was also awarded the Padma Bhushan, India's third highest civilian award.[1][2][3] He was awarded a special gold medal by the President of Pakistan on the centenary of the birth of Muhammad Iqbal.[4][5]
^Mohan Lal (1992). Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature: Sasay to Zorgot. Sahitya Akademi. pp. 4240–. ISBN 978-81-260-1221-3.
^"Obituaries". The Milli Gazette. Vol. 3, no. 5. Pharos Media. Retrieved 5 October 2015.
^"Padma Bhushan Awardees – Padma Awards – My India, My Pride – Know India: National Portal of India". archive.india.gov.in. Archived from the original on 6 October 2015. Retrieved 5 October 2015.
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