About the Author

Yasmeen Hameed has over thirty five years of experience in the fields of education, literature and art. She has authored five books of poetry in Urdu. These are Pas-e Aina (1988), Hisar-e Be Dar-o-Divar (1991), Adha Din Aur Adhi Rat (1996), Fana Bhi Ek Sarab (2001) and Be Samar Peron Ki Kvahish (2012). The first four books were collectively published under the title Düsri Zindagi (700 pages) in 2007. A selection of her poetry titled Hum Do Zamanon Men Paida Hue was published in 2018. Her book, Pakistani Urdu Verse (English… 513 pages) was published b Oxford University Press in 2010. She has compiled and edited Daybreak: Writings on Faiz published by Oxford University Press in 2013. She has also compiled and edited Naya Urdu Afsana by Sang-e Meel Publications in 2014. Her poem was published in translation in Granta, 112 Pakistan from London, UK and five of her poems in translation are included in an anthology called Modern Poetry of Pakistan, published b Dalkey Archive Press, Champaign and London, USA. Her poems in translation were also published in Atlanta Review: Pakistan, Spring and Summer 2014. Fourteen of her poems with English translation were published in Three Contemporary Artists by Iffat Sayeed, published in 2019 by the University of Punjab, Lahore. She was Guest Editor of Pakistani Literature (English), published by the Pakistan Academy of Letters, Islamabad and has edited seven volumes of the journal, including two volumes of a special issue on women writers from Pakistan. She has contributed to the column called Poetic Justice of the Books && Authors section of the daily Dawn. She has also hosted music and literary programmes for Pakistan Television. Her third collection of poetry was awarded the National Allama Mohammed Iqbal Award for the best book of poetry for the year 1996. Her fourth collection was awarded the Ahmed Nadeem Qasmi Award for the best book of poetry for the year 2001. Her book, Pakistani Urdu Verse was awarded the UBL/ Jang Literary Excellence Award in 2012. In 2006, she received the Fatima Jinnah Medal for Literature by the Government of Punjab. In 2008, she was awarded the Tamgha-e Imtiaz for Literature by the Government of Pakistan.

Yasmeen Hameed was the Founder Director of the Gurmani Centre for South Asian Languages and Literature in the Social Sciences Department at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS). She also developed and taught courses in Urdu Literature at LUMS. She worked there from August 2007 to 2016.

She owns and has established The Lahore Alma (Junior/ Senior School) in DHA, Lahore. The school was established in 1986. It now has a strength of over 800 students from Playgroup (age 3) to A-Levels (age 18). The school is registered with the University of Cambridge, UK. She is Director of the school.

She has a Master s degree in Nutrition for which she was awarded a gold medal in 1972 by the University of Punjab, Lahore.