Mushtaq Yusufi and Asif Farrukhi s writing style lauded - Newspaper dawn.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from dawn.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Photo courtesy Murtaza Ali/ White Star
Many renowned writers, including George Orwell, Rudyard Kipling, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Ernest Hemingway, started their writing careers as journalists and then achieved fame in the world of literature.
Marquez, in an interview with the literary magazine The Paris Review, said, “I’ve always been convinced that my true profession is that of a journalist. What I didn’t like about journalism before were the working conditions.” He had expressed his joy at any chance of doing “a great piece of journalism” even when he had become a famous novelist. One of his most famous works, Love in the Time of Cholera, was based on a news story that he had read about two old American lovers who would have annual trysts in Mexico until they were killed at the age of 80. Marquez spoke about it in his interview published in The New York Times in 1988.
KARACHI: Eminent individuals from the world of literature and art gathered at the Arts Council of Pakistan Karachi’s Josh Malihabadi Library on Tuesday evening to pay tribute to the legendary writer Mushtaq Ahmed Yusufi on his third death anniversary.
Poet Iftikhar Arif, who spoke online from Islamabad, said Yusufi sahib was a man of many shades. He was one of those rare individuals who wrote about his creative process which can be detected from his writings because eventually that’s what’s going to remain [of writers]. He was an extremely learned man who had read Western literature and philosophy in depth.
This year marks the 200th birth anniversary of Charles Baudelaire, creator of Les Fleurs du mal [The Flowers of Evil] a collection of lyrical poems that still shock and thrill and the avant-garde prose poems that are strikingly modern in content and style.
Born in Paris in the spring of 1821, Baudelaire lived for only 46 years, and that too in deep anguish and constant pain. Perhaps not ignored but less appreciated during his lifetime when Victor Hugo overshadowed the literary landscape in both prose and verse Baudelaire’s pre-eminence among the French poets was incrementally established as time passed.
Eighty years after his death, Joseph M. Bernstein wrote in his editorial introduction of Baudelaire’s translations in English, published from the United States: “. an inexorable self-analyst and explorer of subconscious in poetry, a creator of images that fire the senses, quicken the heart and illumine the mind, Baudelaire has few if any peers in the roll-call of mode