Jameela Nishat
Indian poet
Jameela Nishat (born 1955) is an Urdu poet, editor, and feminist from Hyderabad, Telangana, India.
Biography
Jameela Nishat was born in Hyderabad in a middle-class family. Her father, Syed Bin Mohammad, was a portrait artist. He was also a close friend of artist M F Hussain.
She wrote in Kitab Numa, a journal published by Jamia Millia University in Delhi and in other poetry magazines. Her first book, Lava, a collection of poems, was published in 2000. Hoshang Merchant translated some of her poems from Lava and the translated poems were published by Sahitya Academy in 2008. She has published three collections of poetry. Her work has also been featured in anthologies.
SPARROW published a booklet on her life and work in 1999.
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