Famous writers and poets from Lahore

Hakim Ahmad Shuja, poet, dramatist, writer and scholar
Chaudhry Afzal Haq (writer, politician, historian, Novelist)
Abdul Hameed, Urdu fiction writer
Agha Shorish Kashmiri (writer, historian)
Muhammad Asim Butt (Urdu novelist, short story writer, translator, researcher, editor, critic and journalist)
Janbaz Mirza (writer, historian)
Wasif Ali Wasif (conversationalist,writer,Sufism)
Amrita Pritam, woman Punjabi poet, novelist, and essayist
Ashfaq Ahmed, writer, playwright, broadcaster
Bapsi Sidhwa, novelist in English, author of Cracking India, The Crow Eaters, Ice Candy Man and Water
Faiz Ahmed Faiz, poet in Urdu, Lenin Peace Prize recipient
Habib Jalib
Imtiaz Dharker
Krishan Chander
Mohsin Hamid
Moniza Alvi
Muneer Niazi
Muhammad Iqbal, philosopher, politician, poet
Rudyard Kipling, English short-story writer, poet, novelist (resided in Lahore)
Alamgir Hashmi, English poet, essayist, fiction writer (born in Lahore)
Saadat Hasan Manto, short story writer in Urdu
Qayyum Nazar, Urdu Language poet
Khadija Mastoor, Urdu feminist writer
Hajra Masroor, Urdu feminist writer
Ali Arshad Mir, Punjabi poet and writer
Sahir Ludhianvi, Poet and writer

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