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30th death anniversary of poetess Parveen Shakir observed

She was winner of Pride of Performance for her outstanding contributions to literature

GNN Web Desk
Published 13 hours ago on Dec 26th 2024, 8:33 pm
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30th death anniversary of poetess Parveen Shakir observed

(Web Desk): The 30th death anniversary of poetess Parveen Shakir was observed on Thursday.  Parveen Shakir started writing at a very young age.

She wrote both prose and poetry, contributed columns in Urdu newspapers, and a few articles in English dailies. She was the winner of the Pride of Performance for her outstanding contributions to literature.

Her popular poetry work includes Sad-barg, Khud Kalami and Inkar which were compiled in the book Mah-e-Tamam. Parveen Shakir died in a road accident in Islamabad in 1994 at the age of forty-two.