Pir Muhammad Karwaan is a well known Pashto poet. Now in his late forties, he was born in Khost in Afghanistan. Karwaan migrated to Peshawar in 1990 and lived there for more than a decade. He returned to Kabul after the end of the Taliban regime; he works with the BBC’s Afghan Education Project. Pir […]

Parween Faiz Zadah Malaal is one of the most popular women poets writing in Pashto. Born in 1957, in Afghanistan’s southern Kandahar province, Parween Malaal got an education in her native city of Kandahar before graduating from Kabul University. She began her career as a journalist by writing for a prominent paper, Tolo-e-Afghan, published in […]

Professor Obaidullah Darwesh Durrani, commonly knows as Darwesh Durrani in the literary world, is one of the most famous contemporary Pashto poets. His family is originally from Kandahar in southern Afghanistan; they later settled in Quetta, Pakistan. He has a Masters degree in English literature, a subject he teaches to college students in Quetta. He […]

Abdul Bari Jahani is considered to be one of the most famous contemporary poets of Pashto language. He was born in Kandahar, southern Afghanistan, in 1948 and got his BA degree from Kabul University’s Faculty of Literature in 1972. He was the editor of Kabul magazine. Two years before the Soviet invasion he was appointed […]