Sara Shagufta

Sara Shagufta (1954-1984) was a Pakistani poet born in Gujranwala, Punjab to a working-class family displaced from India by Partition. She lived most of her life in Karachi. She wrote experimental, confessional and political poetry and prose in boh Urdu and Punjabi. Two volumes of her Urdu poetry, Aankhein and Neend ka Rang, were published posthumously after her tragic early death on June 4, 1984.