Renowned Urdu Poet, Scholar Jaun Elia Remembered

Renowned Urdu poet and scholar Jaun Elia was remembered on his birth anniversary on Friday.

ISLAMABAD, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 14th Dec, 2018 ) :Renowned urdu poet and scholar Jaun Elia was remembered on his birth anniversary on Friday.

Jaun Elia was born on December 14, 1931 in an illustrious family of Amroha Uttar Pradesh.He was the youngest of his siblings. His father Allama Shafiq Hasan Elia was deeply involved in art and literature and also an astrologer and a poet.

This literary environment modelled him along the same lines and he wrote his first Urdu couplet when he was just 8.

He was fluent in Arabic, English, Persian, Sanskrit and Hebrew.

Elia migrated to Pakistan in 1957, and made Karachi his home. His first poetry collection Shayad was published in 1991, when he was 60. The second collection of his poetry Ya'ani was published posthumously in 2003.

Later his companion, Khalid Ansari, compiled and published his three consecutive collections, Gumaan in 2004, Lekin in 2006 and Goya in2008.

He died after a protracted illness on November 8, 2002 in Karachi.