an evening, with nadir ali Options

[moazzam]

An Afternoon with Nadir Ali
Poet and Short Story Writer
Saturday July 15, 2:00 - 5:00 pm
@San Francisco Main Library
Sycip Room (Main, 4th Fl.)
100 Larkin St. (at Grove)

Retired in the rank of Lt. Colonel in 1974. Nadir Ali has been involved ever since in Punjabi writing and Punjabi language movement. He settled down in Lahore and since 1974 has been a regular member of the Sangat at the residence of Najm Hosain Syed. He started writing for the daily Frontier Post, Lahore and later on The News, Lahore on the subject of Punjabi bhakti/sufi poetry. He continues to be a columnist and book reviewer for The News, Lahore.
He lived in New York from 1984 to 1989 and was a member of the Saahat Sangat in New York. There he mostly read his poetry which was collected and published, Bol Jhutay te Suchay (1989). He writes short stories in Punjabi of which three collections have been published so far.
His last collected Kahani Praga was given the Waris Shah Memorial Award as the best book of the year in Punjabi in 2005 by the Pakistan Academy of Letters. A few of his short stories have been translated into English and Urdu. Also, Lahore Television dramatized his story Ik Maani DaaniyaaN Di in 1999.