Poet & writer
Munir Niazi
ਮੁਨੀਰ ਨਿਆਜ਼ੀمنیر نیازی
Poet in Urdu and Punjabi, born near Hoshiarpur, a voice of loneliness and lost places after Partition.
Munir Niazi was born in 1928 in Khanpur near Hoshiarpur and settled in Lahore after Partition. He wrote in both Urdu and Punjabi, and wrote songs for films.
His poems are about fear and longing, deserted towns and houses, and the sense of always arriving too late; Hamesha der kar deta hoon, I am always late, is quoted by people who have never read anything else of his.
He died in Lahore in 2006.