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| birth_date = {{birth date|1934|3|3|df=y}}{{Citation needed|date= June 2018}}
| birth_place = [[Hyderabad]], [[Telangana]], India
|death_date = {{death date and age|1995|7|2|1934|3|3|df=y}}{{Citation needed|date= June 2018}}
|death_place = [[Chicago]], [[United States]]
| occupation = Writer and Poet ([[Urdu]])
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'''Awaz Bin Sayeed Bin Awaz Bin Jabir Bin Abdullah''' (3 March 1934 – 2 July 1995) ({{lang-ur|{{nq|عوض سعید}}}}) (pen name: '''Chaand''', {{lang|ur|{{nq|چاند}}}}), was a modern short-story writer, poet, playwright, Khaka-naveez and humorist from Hyderabad, India.
 

==Early life and family==

Awaz Sayeed was born on 3 March 1934 to Sayeed Bin Awaz Bin Jabir Bin Abdullah (father) and Noorunnissa Begum Al Khulaqi (mother).{{Citation needed|date= June 2018}}

Awaz Sayeed was a Hadhrami Arab by descent belonging to a family of Hyderabad Deccan, with roots in [[Mukallah]] in [[Hadhramaut]] (present-day Yemen).{{Citation needed|date= June 2018}} He belongs to the Al-Musalli Clan of the Al-Yafai Tribe. His father served as State Financier under His Highness Sultan Omar bin Awadh Al Qu'aiti (Nawab Sir Jan-Baz Jung Bahadur K.C.I.E.) and His Highness Sultan Sir Saleh bin Ghalib Al Qu'aiti (Saif Nawaz Jung Bahadur).{{Citation needed|date= June 2018}}

Sayeed completed his early education from Anwar-ul-Uloom High School.{{Citation needed|date= June 2018}} Thereafter, he passed out Matriculation from the City College in April 1948, Intermediate from the Chaderghat College in April 1952 and took enroled in Anwar-ul-Uloom College to pursue Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) but only completed the first year owing to his getting employment in the Food Corporation of India in 1954.{{Citation needed|date= June 2018}} Awaz Sayeed married Kaneez Fatima in 1960.{{Citation needed|date= June 2018}}

==Literary career==

Sayeed's first Urdu afsana ''Jeetey Jaagtey'' was published in 1949 in ''Nizam-e-Lahore''. Thereafter, several of his stories have been published in Urdu magazines of the Indian Sub-continent.{{Citation needed|date= June 2018}}

He also wrote humorous works including ''Shaqsi-Khaka-Nigari'' (life-sketches) in which he portrayed known personalities of [[Urdu literature]].{{Citation needed|date= June 2018}}

Awaz Sayeed's stories have been translated into English, Hindi, and Malayalam.{{Citation needed|date= June 2018}}

Some English translations of his Urdu short stories have been included in at least two recent English compilations of translated works by Urdu writers of the Indian Sub-Continent. The first book ''Despairing voices: a collection of modern Urdu short stories'' edited and translated by Syed Sarwar (Satyam Publishing House, 2011) includes his four Urdu short stories ''Raat Wala Ajnabi'' ('The Night's Stranger'), ''Udaas Nasal Ka Aakhri Aadmi'' ('Last Man of the Melancholic Race'), ''Andha Kunwan'' ('Dry Well') and ''Coma''. The second book ''New Urdu Writings: From India and Pakistan'' by Rakhshanda Jalil (Westland Ltd, 2013) includes the story ''Chubhan'' ('Pin-Prick').

The 1998 M.Phil thesis of Nusrat Jahan is titled ‘Awaz Sayeed Ki Shaqsiyat Aur Fan’ (عوض سید - شخصیت اور فن) and the 2006 M. Phil thesis by Aliya Maqsood is titled 'Awaz Sayeed Ba Haisiyat Khaka Nigar' (عوض سید - بحیثیت خا کہ نگار).{{Citation needed|date= June 2018}}

==Books==

Awaz Sayeed wrote seven books: six of them short stories: ''Sai Ka Safar'' (1969), ''Teesra Mujasamma'' (1973), ''Raat Wala Ajnabi'' (1977), ''Kohe-Nida'' (1977), ''Benaam Mausamon Ka Nauha'' (1987) and ''Kuwaan Aadmi Aur Samandar'' (1993) and a book on ''khake'' (personality sketches) called ''Khake'' (1985).{{Citation needed|date= June 2018}}

The second reprint of the book ''Khake'' was produced in 2006 by his son [[Ausaf Sayeed]] in association with the Urdu Academy Jeddah.{{Citation needed|date= June 2018}} The book was released by [[Arjun Singh (politician, born 1930)|Arjun Singh]], the Minister of Human Resource Development, [[Government of India]], during a special function in Jeddah.{{Citation needed|date= June 2018}} In August 2009, Sayeed's published and unpublished works was published in two volumes titled ''Kuliyaat-e-Awaz Sayeed'' by his son Ausaf Sayeed, which was released by Shri Mohammad Hamid Ansari, Vice-President of India.{{Citation needed|date= June 2018}} The book has been published by Educational Publishing House, New Delhi.{{Citation needed|date= June 2018}}

==Death==

Sayeed died on 2 July 1995, following a heart failure while on a visit to Chicago, Illinois, USA.{{Citation needed|date= June 2018}} He is buried at the Rosehill Cemetery, Peterson in Chicago.{{Citation needed|date= June 2018}}

==External links==
* [http://www.awazsayeed.com/ Awaz Sayeed’s Urdu Literature Page]
* [http://www.arabnews.com/?page=21&section=0&article=84512&d=4&m=7&y=2006 Fascinating Sketches -- Arab News]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20121031212422/http://urduadab4u.blogspot.com/2010/08/awaz-saeed-urdu-poet-and-short-story.html Urdu Adab Blogspot]

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