Afzal Ahmed Syed
Afzal Ahmed Syed is the author of numerous volumes of poetry and translations of Western literature into Urdu, including works by Gabriel García Márquez and Jean Genet. Syed's poetry collections are written in the genre nazm, Death Sentences in Two Languages, and Rococo and Other Worlds gained him extensive popularity in the Eastern literary world. He is credited with infusing Urdu nazm poetry with a new idiom and imagery.