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{{Infobox person
| name        = Makhmoor Saeedi<br /><small>{{Nastaliq|مخمور سعیدی}}</small>

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| birth_date  = 1938
| birth_place = [[Tonk, India]]
| death_date  = 2010
| death_place = [[Jaipur]], [[India]]
| nationality = [[Indian people|Indian]]
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| known_for   = [[Nazm]]s, [[Ghazal]]s and qataas 
| occupation  = Poet, writer, translator, journalist
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'''Makhmoor Saeedi''' (31 December 1938 – 2 March 2010) ([[Urdu]]: مخمور سعیدی) was an [[Urdu poetry|Urdu poet]], writer, translator and journalist from [[Tonk, India|Tonk]], [[Rajasthan]], [[India]].

==Biography==
Makhmoor Saeedi was born on 31 December 1938 in [[Tonk, India]]. His father, Ahmed Khan Nazish was also an Urdu poet of repute. After completing his school-studies he graduated from [[Agra University]]. After graduation he moved to [[Delhi]].<ref name=EncUrdu>{{cite book|title=Encyclopaedic Dictionary Of Urdu Literature|volume=1|first=Abida|last=Samiuddin|publisher=Global Vision Publishing|year=2007|pages=531|location=Delhi|isbn=978-81-8220-192-7|url=https://books.google.com/books?isbn=8182201918}}</ref>

From 1956 to 1979, he worked as Joint Editor of Monthly ''Tahreek'', published by [[Gopal Mittal]]. Thereafter, he edited ''Nigar'', ''Aiwan e Urdu'' and ''Umang'', and was also the Secretary of Urdu Akademi, Delhi. He joined National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language, an autonomous body under the HRD ministry in 1998 as literary advisor and edited research journal quarterly   "Fikr o Tahqeeq". He was also honorary editor of NCPUL's news and views magazine monthly ''Urdu Duniya''. He died in [[Jaipur]], Rajasthan, on 2 March 2010 and was buried in Tonk.<ref name=Hin0310>{{cite news|title= Eminent Urdu poet Saeedi passes away|url=http://www.hindu.com/2010/03/04/stories/2010030460270500.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100314222022/http://www.hindu.com/2010/03/04/stories/2010030460270500.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 14, 2010|work= [[The Hindu]]|date=March 4, 2010}}</ref>

==Literary life==
Makhmoor Saeedi wrote his first poem in 1948 when he was ten years old. He soon mastered the technique of writing Urdu poetry and excelled at writing [[Ghazal]]s and [[Nazm]]s in the conventional rhymed formats as well as in unrhymed blank and free-verse. He was greatly influenced by [[Mohammad Iqbal]], [[Akhtar Sheerani]] and [[Josh Malihabadi]].<ref name=EncUrdu/> He is consider one of the preeminent practitioners of modern poetry in Urdu alongside  [[Basheer Badr]], [[Ali Sardar Jafri]] and [[Kaifi Azmi]].<ref name=Hin0310/>

He was the poet of real earthy love and beauty who also wrote qataas, rubais, geets and dohas. His twenty publications include ''Sabrang'', ''Seah bar Safed'', ''Awaz ke jism'', ''Wahid Mutakallam'', ''Aate jaate lamhon ki sadaa'', ''Guftani'', ''Deewar o dar ke darmiaan'' and ''Rasta aur main''.

''Rasta aur main'' earned him the 2007 Sahitya Akademi Award.<ref name=Hin0310/>

An appraisal of his life and works compiled by [[Sheen Kaaf Nizam]] titled ''Bheed mein akelaa'' was published by the Rajasthan Urdu Akademi in 2007.<ref name=Hin0310/><ref>{{cite book|title=Bheed Main Akela(Articles on Makhmoor Saeedi's life & works) (Open Library)|work=openlibrary.org|ol = 18587967M}}</ref>

==Bibliography==

Urdu poetry:
* ''Sabrang''
* ''Seah bar Safed''
* ''Awaz ke jism''
* ''Wahid Mutakallam''
* ''Aate jaate lamhon ki sada''
* ''Guftani''
* ''Deewar o dar ke darmiaan''
* ''Rasta aur main''
* ''Ghar kahin gum ho gayaa''
* ''Perh girta huaa''
* ''Sheerazah''

==References==
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4. Lall, Inder Jit, Makhmoor, The Century, July 25, 1964<br>
5. Lall, Inder Jit, Makhmoor classical cum modern poet, EN (Hindustan Times), June 19, 1981

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