Mashal Sultanpuri

Mohammed Ramzan Bhat (1937 – October 2020), known by his pen name as Mashal Sultanpuri, was a Kashmiri poet, writer and critic.^[1] He was primarily engaged in writing Kashmiri prose.^[2] Prior to his appointment as a patron of Adbee Markaz Kamraz, the oldest literary organization of Jammu and Kashmir, he served as a president of AMK.^[3] In 2009, he became the recipient of Sahitya Akademi Award for his literary criticism book titled Vont.^{[citation needed]} He was among the other campaigners who helped Kashmiri literature to be included in curriculum.^[4]

Biography

He was born in 1937 as Mohammed Ramzan Bhat in Sultanpur Baramulla. He initially wrote under different pen names but later chose to go with Mashal Sultanpuri.^[4] He wrote nineteen poetic books in Urdu and Kashmiri languages.^{[citation needed]} During his school days, he was engaged in copying the poems of famous poets and later published his own poetry collection titled Keh Ghazale at the apparent age of sixteen.^{[citation needed]} The second poetic collection he published in 1966 was Dubrai. In 1974, he published another poetry titled Heevan.^{[citation needed]}

He also translated some uncertain publications of Muhammad Iqbal, Sheikh Sarmad and Shakespeare's Sonnets. Later, he translated August Na, a play by Manoranjan Das originally published in Odia language.^[4]

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