Taufiq Rafat
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Taufiq Rafat (1927-1998) was an English language Pakistani poet born in Sialkot, Punjab in 1927. Educated in Dehra Dun, Aligarh and Lahore, Rafat and his family returned to Sialkot in 1947. After graduating from the Hailey College of Commerce, Lahore, Rafat became a company executive and married his wife Rehana, who was a social worker and women's rights activist from the local Kashmiri community.
Hailed as one the finest poets writing in English in Pakistan Rafat wrote some of his finest poems in the 1970s including “The Boy with the Bashed in Skull” and “Gangrene” from Wordfall, both of which provide vivid images of poverty and social division. Rafat's major work Arrival of the Monsoon: Collected Poems 1947-1978, which contains 150 poems, was published in Lahore in 1985.
