User:Shamimmanzar

Shamim Manzar is an Author,Linguist,Poet and Head of the German Language Department at the Goethe Institute in Karachi, Pakistan; where he teaches German literature.

Early Life and Education

Shamim Manzar was born in Karachi Pakistan on December 25th 1955. He is the son of Mohammad Manzar and Aisha Khatoon. Shamim’s brother Akbar Azam Manzar is also an Urdu activist and is striving to get Urdu the status of a UN language. He acquired his education in Pakistan and Germany. Presently, he is head of the German language department at the Goethe Institute in Karachi and also incharge of its culture-section. He writes in Urdu, German and English. He is well-known in India as well. He is author of two books (short stories Tanhai Ka Aik Din, published in the year 2003 and a novel Zawal Se Pehley, (2008). There are four TV-Plays on Partition Stories, which have been telecast in Pakistan. Script, Screen Play and Dialogue of such stories are written by him. '''Besides he has translated the German play "Die Räuber" by Friedrich Schiller into Urdu and poems of Faiz Ahmed Faiz into German.

'''Books by Shamim Manzar: - '''Tanhai ka ek din (Collection of Urdu short stories) - Zawal se pehlay (Urdu novel) - Qazaq (Translation of German play "Die Räuber by Friedrich Schiller) - Jab teri smunder aankhon mein (Translation of Faiz Ahmed Faiz Poems into German)