Renowned Poetess Yasmeen Hameed in PTV program کسب کمال with Imran Mir

Yasmeen Hameed (Tamgha e Imtiaz) has around 30 years of experience in the fields of literature art & education .She was Writer in Residence at the Lahore University of Management Sciences where she was responsible for designing and teaching courses in Urdu Literature. She was also Director of the Gurmani Centre for Languages and Literature at LUMS. Yasmeen Hameed also owns and has established The Lahore Alma [Junior/Senior School] in DHA, Lahore.
Yasmeen Hameed has authored several books of Urdu poetry and translation. These are Pas-e Ᾱ'īnā (1988), Hisār-e Bē Dar-o-Dīvār (1991), Ādẖā Din Aur Ᾱdẖī Rāt (1996), Fanā Bẖī Ēk Sarāb (2001) and Bē Samar Pēṛoṅ Kī Kvāhish (2012). The first four books were collectively published under the title Dūsrī Zindagī (700 pages) in 2007.In 2018 ہم دو زمانوں میں پیدا ہوئے collection of her Urdu poetry. Her book, Pakistani Urdu Verse (English…513 pages) was published by Oxford University Press in 2010. She has edited and translated this anthology of the Urdu nazm, introducing sixty-three Urdu poets of the post-Iqbal period. She has also compiled and edited Daybreak: Writings on Faiz published by Oxford University Press in 2013. Her poem was published in translation in Granta, 112 Pakistan from London, UK and five of her poems in translation are included in an anthology called Modern Poetry of Pakistan, published by Dalkey Archive Press, Champaign and London, USA. She was Guest Editor of Pakistani Literature (English), published by the Pakistan Academy of Letters, Islamabad and has edited eight volumes of the journal, including two volumes (590 pages) of a special issue on women writers from Pakistan. She has extensively translated Urdu poetry into English. She has contributed to the column called Poetic Justice of the Books & Authors section of the Daily Dawn, through which she introduced and translated forty two contemporary Urdu poets. She has also hosted music and literary programes for Pakistan Television.
Awards and Accomplishments
Roll of Honour and Gold Medal from Punjab University, Lahore (1972)
Third collection, National Allama Mohammed Iqbal Award for the best book of poetry (1996)
Fourth Collection, Ahmed Nadeem Qasmi Award for the best book of poetry (2001)
Fatima Jinnah Medal for Literature by the Government of Punjab (2006)
Tamgha-e Imtiaz for Literature by the Government of Pakistan (2008)
Pakistani Urdu Verse, UBL/Jang Literary Excellence Award (2012)