Syed Kashif Raza

Syed Kashif Raza is a poet, novelist, and translator. He has authored several works, including three poetry collections and the celebrated novel Char Darvesh aur Aik Katchwa, which won the 9th UBL Prize for Best Fiction in Urdu. The novel was also shortlisted for the KLF Prize for Urdu Literature in the same year. Its German translation was published by Draupadi Verlag and launched in several German cities in May 2025. His poetry collections Muhabbat ka Mahall-e-Wuqu and Mamnu Mausamon ki Kitab were published in 2003 and 2012, respectively. His third collection, Gul-e-Dogana, was published by Maktaba-e-Daniyal in 2025. His poems have been translated into English, Arabic, Hindi, and Sindhi, and have appeared in the prestigious Portland Review. He has taught courses on world literature and scriptwriting and mentored young poets through the Youth Poet Laureate Programme in New York. Raza 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 by Milan Kundera, James Joyce, Jorge Luis Borges, and Isabel Allende. Additionally, he co-compiled a bilingual anthology with Naila Mehmood that explores the COVID-19 experience in literature and the arts. Kashif Raza has written socio-political articles, literary essays, and book reviews for Dawn, The News International, Jang, and various literary magazines. He also edited six volumes of Karachi Review, a journal of book and art reviews. Professionally, he is a broadcast journalist and currently serves as Executive Producer at Geo News.