Munawwar Rana

Munawwar Rana (Hindi: मुनव्वर राणा, 26 November 1952 – 14 January 2024) was an Indian Urdu poet. He has also published several Ghazals.
Biography
Munawwar Rana was born in Raebareli in Uttar Pradesh, India in 1952. His relatives, maternal grandmother and maternal grandmother, migrated to Pakistan at the time of Partition of India. But his father, due to his love for India, made India his home. Later his family shifted to Kolkata, West Bengal.

He was honored with the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2014 for Shahdaba, a poem written by him. But, one year later he returned the award and promised to never again accept a government award due to rising intolerance in the country leading to state sponsored communalism. His daughter, Sumaiya Rana is also a member of the Samajwadi Party (SP), led by Akhilesh Yadav.

Rana died from throat cancer on 14 January 2024. He was aged 71 at the time of his death.
References

Other websites
 Official site 
 Books by Munawwar Rana

Category:1952 births
Category:2024 deaths
Category:20th-century Indian poets
Category:People from Uttar Pradesh