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On February 17 Victor Gordon Kiernan passed away at the age of 95. In Pakistan he is known mostly as the translator of Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s Urdu poetry into English, Poems by Faiz, published under the auspices of United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Earlier he also translated Iqbal’s verse into English, Poems from Iqbal, published in the Wisdom of the East series.
In the academic world and among the left intellectuals in general, Victor Kiernan (...)