1. Ada Jafarey, often spelled Ada Jafri, was a Pakistani poet who is regarded as the first major female Urdu poet to be published and has been called "The First Lady of Urdu Poetry".
26 Facts About Ada Jafri
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Ada Jafri was an author and was considered a prominent figure in contemporary Urdu literature.
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Ada Jafri received awards from the Government of Pakistan, the Pakistan Writers' Guild, and literary societies of North America and Europe in recognition of her efforts.
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Ada Jafri started composing poetry when she was twelve years old, under the pen name of Ada Badayuni.
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Ada Jafri spent her early life within impassable social bounds.
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Ada Jafri married Nurul Hasan Jafarey on 29 January 1947, in Lucknow, India.
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Ada Jafri's husband, Nurul Hasan, was a top-ranking civil servant of the Federal Government of India.
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Ada Jafri Jafarey moved with her husband to Karachi after the independence of Pakistan in 1947.
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Ada Jafri's husband was a litterateur himself who wrote columns for both English and Urdu newspapers.
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Ada Jafri served as the president of the Anjuman-i Taraqqi-i Urdu.
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Ada Jafri used to frequently travel between Karachi and Toronto, playing an active role in promoting Urdu.
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Ada Jafri Jafarey lived with her son, Aamir Jafarey, his wife, Maha Jafarey, together with their daughter Asra Jafarey in Karachi until her death.
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Ada Jafri Jafarey has two great-grandchildren, Sabine Rana and Rizwan Rana, children of Sabah Iqbal Rana and her husband Fawad Rana.
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Ada Jafri Jafarey died in the evening of 12 March 2015 in a hospital in Karachi where she was being treated, at the age of 90.
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Ada Jafri was buried in the PECHS graveyard, Jamshed Town, Karachi on 13 March 2015.
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Ada Jafri Jafarey was part of a traditionally conservative society where women were not allowed to think and express independently.
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Ada Jafri was the student of great poets like Akhtar Sheerani and Jafar Ali Khan Asar Lakhnavi and used to get her poetry checked and corrected by them.
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Ada Jafri Jafarey wrote of her experiences as a wife and mother in a modified traditional idiom, but noticed the lack of fulfillment that accompanied these relationships.
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Ada Jafri had mastered both genres of Urdu poetry, and ghazal.
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Ada Jafri Jafarey published her first collection of poems, in 1950.
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Ada Jafri published her collection of Urdu Haiku, Her ghazal, was sung and popularised by Ustad Amanat Ali Khan.
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Ada Jafri received the Baba-e Urdu, Dr Maulvi Abdul Haq Award from the Pakistan Academy of Letters in 1994, and the Quaid-e Azam Literary Award in 1997.
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Ada Jafri was the recipient of various international awards from literary societies in North America and Europe.
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Ada Jafri was the recipient of the Kamal-e Fan Award for lifetime achievement in literature by the Pakistan Academy of Letters in 2003.
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Ada Jafri was the first woman recipient of the award since the literary prize was established by the Pakistan Academy of Letters in 1997.
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Ada Jafri combines both old and new thoughts in a unique artistic way through her poetry.