Syed Kashif Raza

Syed Kashif Raza

Syed Kashif Raza is a poet, novelist and translator. He has authored several works, including two poetry collections and the celebrated novel ‘Char Darvesh aur Aik Katchwa’, which won the 9th UBL Prize for Best Fiction in Urdu. It was short-listed for the KLF prize for Urdu Literature the same year. The German translation of this novel is scheduled to be published by Draupadi Verlag in Germany, in April 2025.

His poetry collections ‘Muhabbat ka Mahall-e-Wuqu’ and ‘Mamnu Mausamon ki Kitab’ were published in 2003 and 2012 respectively. His poems have been translated into English, Arabic, Hindi and Sindhi and were also published in the prestigious ‘Portland Review’. A third collection of his poetry, ‘Gul-e-Dogana’ is being published by Maktaba-e-Daniyal, Karachi, shortly.

He has taught courses on world literature and scriptwriting and has guided young poets as part of the Youth Poet Laureate Programme, New York.

He has translated notable works by authors such as Noam Chomsky, Arundhati Roy, Muhammad Hanif, Eqbal Ahmad and Frances Hodgson Burnett into Urdu. He has also translated stories of Milan Kundera, James Joyce, Jorge Luis Borges, and Isabel Allende. He co-compiled a bilingual anthology with Naila Mehmood which depicts corona experience in literature and arts.

Kashif Raza has written socio-political articles, literary essays and book reviews for Daily Dawn, The News International, Daily Jung and many literary magazines. He also edited six volumes of Karachi Review, a journal of book and art reviews. He is a broadcast journalist by profession and works for Geo News as Executive Producer.