Ali Sardar Jafri

Ali Sardar Jafri was born in Balrampur (India) in 1913. He was one of the founders of Progressive Writers Movement. He graduated from the Anglo-Arabic College, Delhi and became a communist sympathiser during his student life. He went to jail many times in support of the freedom movement. He founded and edited Naya Adab (Lucknow) and Guftugu (Bombay). He has won numerous awards during his life including the pretigious Jnanpith Award. Jafri has nined poetry collections and several prose works in Urdu, Hindi and English to his credit. He died on 1st Aug 2000 in Mumbai.