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Shan-ul-Haq Haqqee was born on 15 September, 1917 in Delhi, British India, is an A 20th-century pakistani poet. Discover Shan-ul-Haq Haqqee's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 88 years old?

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Occupation Urdu poet, writer, lexicographer
Age 88 years old
Zodiac Sign Virgo
Born 15 September 1917
Birthday 15 September
Birthplace Delhi, British India
Date of death 11 October, 2005
Died Place Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
Nationality India

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His wife is Begum Salma Haqqee

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Shan-ul-Haq Haqqee, Sitara-e-Imtiaz, Tamgha-e-Quaid-i-Azam, was an Urdu poet, writer, journalist, broadcaster, translator, critic, researcher, linguist and lexicographer of Pakistan.

Born in Delhi, Haqqee acquired his BA degree from Aligarh Muslim University.

He obtained a Master's degree in English literature from St. Stephen's College, Delhi.

His father, Ehtashamuddin Haqqee, wrote short stories, a study of Persian poet Hafez Shirazi, Tarjuman-ul-Ghaib, a translation of Diwan-i-Hafez in verse and assisted Baba-e-Urdu Maulvi Abdul Haq in compiling his Lughat-i-Kabeer (Grand Urdu Dictionary).

1957

Haqqee published two collections of his own poems, Taar-i-Pairahan (1957) and Harf-i-Dilras (1979).

He also published ghazals under the title, Dil ki Zaban.

His other publications include:

His autobiography was serialized in the Urdu journal Afkaar.

He also translated Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra and Chanakya Kautilya's Arthashastra.

He also wrote other genres of poetry, such as Peheylian, Kehmukarnian, and Qitat-i-Tareekhi.

1958

In addition to his regular professional duties, he remained associated with the Urdu Dictionary Board for 17 years from 1958 to 1975, compiling a 22-volume dictionary.

He compiled two other dictionaries.

Farhang-e-Talaffuz is a pronouncing dictionary of Urdu published by the National Language Authority.

The Oxford English-Urdu Dictionary is a translation of the eighth and ninth editions of the Concise Oxford English Dictionary.

One of his personal friends was the former Chairman of Pakistan Academy of Letters and National Language Authority, Iftikhar Arif, who remembers him fondly.

2005

After his death in 2005, he said that Haqqee had worked diligently and hard most of his life and had a strong belief in the proper use of talaffuz with special emphasis on diction and pronunciation.

He died from complications of lung cancer in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada while under his daughter's care on 11 October 2005.

He was 87.

Haqqee left five sons and one daughter.

Like his wife, teacher Salma Haqqee, who died exactly two years earlier, he was buried in Mississauga, Canada.

His wife was also a well-educated person and also a graduate of Aligarh Muslim University.

Being an intellectual herself, she understood Haqqee's passion for his work and was a source of support for him all his married life.