DOHA THE 16th annual Aalmi Frogh-e-Urdu Adab Awards will now be presented on November 7 at Doha Sheraton’s Salwa Hall. This was announced by Chairman Majlis-e- Frogh-e-Urdu Adab Mohammad Atiq on Monday.
Earlier, the event was scheduled to be held on November 8 at Doha Sheraton’s Al Majlis Auditorium. Entry to the event will be by invitation alone. All Urdu lovers can obtain the invitation card from Shezan Hotel reception from November 4 onwards. The award will be presented to India’s Shamoil Ahmad and Pakistan’s Ata ul Haq Qasmi.
‘’A special feature of this year’s event is that the Majlis is going to confer a ‘Special Frogh-e- Urdu Adab Award’ on Naseeruddin Shah, one of the finest actors India has produced.
The special award is being given to him in recognition of his contribution to Urdu literature and poetry.
Shah is coming to receive this award with his wife, Ratna Pathak Shah,’’ said Atiq.
Qatar’s Minister of Culture, Arts and Heritage, HE Dr Hamad Abdul Aziz al Kuwari has agreed to be the chief guest on the occasion. Majlis will also release a special souvenir on the occasion. Launched in 1996, the Aalmi Frogh-e-Urdu Adab Award comprises a gold shield and a cash prize of Rs 150,000 for each winner. It is given annually to two creative writers in Urdu and scholars - one from India and the other from Pakistan - for their contributions to Urdu language and literature.
After the awards presentation, an international “mushaira” (poetry session) will also be held. The event will see about two dozen Urdu poets, writers and scholars from India, Pakistan and Australia gather in Doha. The international mushaira will be presided over by a well known scholar and poet from Pakistan Dr Khurshid Rizvi.
Noted Indian scholar and former chairman Sahitya Academy Dr Gopi Chand Narang and actor Naseeruddin Shah will be the guests of honour.
The guest-poets from India this year are Munawwar Rana, Rais Ansari, Iqbal Ashhar and Dr Nuzhat Anjum. The guestpoets from Pakistan are Dr Khurshid Rizvi, Ata ul Haq Qasmi, Aslam Kaulsari, Sarfaraz Shahid, Rakhshanda Naveed and Saleem Fauz.
Australia-based poet Mohamed Ali and Qatar-based poets Fartash Syed (representing Majlis), Syed Zawwar Hussain Zair (Pakistan) and Ashfaq Ahmed Qalaq (India) will also participate. Other guests will include Salahuddin from Dubai and Daud Ahmed from Lahore, Pakistan.
The 2012 Aalmi Frogh-e- Urdu Adab awards were decided by two independent juries headed by Urdu scholar, Mushtaq Ahmed Khan Yousufi in Lahore, Pakistan in April and Prof Dr Gopi Chand Narang, in Delhi in May.
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