Maki Kureishi

Maki Kureishi (1927 Calcutta – Karachi 1995) was a Pakistani poet.^[1][2]

She taught at the University of Karachi for 30 years.^[3] She wrote in English.^[4][5][6] Her nephew is Hanif Kureshi.^[7]

Works

• "For My Grandson", Drunken Boat 10
• The Far Thing. Oxford University Press. 1997. ISBN 978-0-19-577780-2.
• Kaleem Omar, ed. (1975). Wordfall: Three Pakistani Poets, Taufiq Rafat, Maki Kureishi, Kaleem Omar. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-577217-3.

Anthologies

• Muneeza Shamsie, ed. (15 January 1998). A Dragonfly in the Sun: An Anthology of Pakistani Writing in English. OUP Pakistan. ISBN 978-0-19-577784-0.

References

1. "Maki Kureishi", The Literary Encyclopedia.
2. Malashri Lal; Sukrita Paul Kumar (2007). Interpreting Homes in South Asian Literature. Pearson Education India. ISBN 978-81-317-0637-4.
3. Author's note/
4. "Pakistani Literature in English". 28 August 2010.
5. "A voice of their own". The Hindu. Chennai, India. 7 September 2008. Archived from the original on 11 September 2008.
6. Radhika Mohanram; Gita Rajan, eds. (1996). English postcoloniality: literatures from around the world. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-313-28854-8.
7. B. J. Moore-Gilbert (2001). Hanif Kureishi. Manchester University Press. ISBN 978-0-7190-5535-5.

External links

• "Remembering Maki Kureishi (1927-1995)", Pakistan: The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, September 1996, 31: 109-121
• "Pakistan", Pakistan Quarterly, Volume 17
• Rāvī, Volume 70, Government College (Lahore, Pakistan), Gavarnmint Kālij. 1980